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		rbanffy on July 8, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How the continuum hypothesis could have been a fun... Not necessarily - you might just come up with a number you know is in the set, say pi/4. I know it's in the set because it satisfies the conditions that define it. Still, the odds of that particular number being picked up are zero.

baduser on July 8, 2024 [–]

If you picked that, you did not pick uniformly from the unit interval. You picked from something else, which was much smaller.

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