In a message of Tue, 16 Jun 2015 16:58:26 -0600, Ian Kelly writes: >On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 4:30 PM, <sohcahto...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tuesday, June 16, 2015 at 3:01:06 PM UTC-7, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn >> wrote: >>> This should give you pause: In real mathematics, events with zero >>> probability can occur. >> >> Nobody will disagree with that. The probability of me winning the lottery >> is zero if I don't buy a ticket. > >I believe he's actually referring to this: > >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almost_surely > >Not that this has anything to do with the probabilities under >discussion in this thread. >-- >https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
I think he is talking about what mathematicians call 'discrepancy': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-discrepancy_sequence Laura -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
