On Apr 11, 8:27 pm, Mark Dickinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 11, 2:33 pm, Lie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > Another mistake, in an unquantized value the probability of getting > > exactly 0.5 (or any other number specified) is not 0 but an > > infinitesimal (i.e. lim(x) where x -> 0 (BUT NOT ZERO)) > > I'm not sure you'll get many takers for this point of view. If X is > a random variable uniformly distributed on the interval [0, 1) then > the probability that X == 0.5 is indeed exactly 0, using conventional > definitions. (And if you're not using conventional definitions, you > should say so....)
And I would like to know what unconventional - but mathematically meaningful - definitions lead to lim x != 0 x -> 0 -- Arnaud -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list