On Sat, Jun 28 2014, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > That doesn't matter. Take a non-negative integer N; if you flip a coin > an infinite number of times, then the probability of the coin landing > on the same face N times in a row is 1.
This is certainly true. > This means that it is *guaranteed* to happen That is not as clear. Prob = 1 does not always mean certain (when there are infinite possibilities). For example the probability is zero that a random rational number chosen between 0 and 1 is exactly 1/2. So the probability is 1 that the number is not 1/2. However it is not certain that the random choice will not be 1/2. allan
