On Tue, Jun 16, 2015, at 15:18, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote: > There is no such thing as “relative probability”, except perhaps in > popular- > scientific material and bad translations. You might mean relative > _frequency_, but I was not talking about that specifically.
The probability of one event (getting a red on a roulette wheel) can be larger than the probability of another event (getting a 17). This is the plain english sense of the word "relative". You have not answered my last question: On Fri, Jun 12, 2015, at 18:57, random...@fastmail.us wrote: > On Fri, Jun 12, 2015, at 18:09, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote: > > Do you deny that “123456789” *is* “a sequence containing all nine > > numbers” > > Do you deny that "123456798" *is* "a sequence containing all nine > numbers"? > > Does this mean that "123456789" *is* "123456798" by the transitive > property? NO. The temperature today is hot. The temperature tomorrow is also hot. This is true even if the temperature today is (for example) 37 and the temperature tomorrow is 35. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
