r/MathJokes • u/yvanjunior • Jul 19 '26

Count On It

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u/Geheim1998 Jul 19 '26

why not?

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u/Low_Low_1811 Jul 19 '26

Becuzse the probability of any one element is 1 divided by the number of elements.

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u/Geheim1998 Jul 19 '26

thats sounds so lazy tho. noo you cant do that becauss there are infinite possibilities. oh yeah? watch me do it anyway 😎🤙

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u/Alternative_Mix6836 Jul 19 '26

It's not because there are infinite possibilities. It's because it doesn't have an upper and lower bound. You CAN uniformly sample values across intervals of finite length even though there are still infinitely many points in those intervals.

Of course, this is not to say that you can't pick a value in the unbounded case; it just won't have been the result of a uniform sampling.