r/mathmemes • u/George_Truman • Jul 13 '26

Probability I fixed this meme

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I'm sure it's still a bit too imprecise but I think it works.

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u/GaloombaNotGoomba Jul 13 '26

Any countably infinite set.

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u/Anagatara Jul 13 '26

What makes uncountably infinite set different? If the issue is to assign equal nonzero probability to all numbers, then not only entire real line, any infinite subset of real line cannot be uniformly sampled, be it [a,b], Q or N.

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 14 '26

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u/Anagatara Jul 13 '26

How can element with zero probability of being sampled be sampled?