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Bad news from Belgium - OT questions

Posted By: Bob Koca
Date: Monday, 11 October 2010, at 1:20 p.m.

In Response To: Bad news from Belgium - OT questions (Casper van der Tak)

"that the math works out better if you consider this a zero chance, but why? "

If you give it some positive value, say delta, then you need to give every other value that same positive value. If you choose a collection of more than (1/delta) distinct values then you have a collection of values so that probability of getting one of those values is greater than 1.

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