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Comment author: Unknowns 11 August 2010 07:28:49AM *  2 points [-]

Those things aren't opposed to one another. It is perfectly possible for me to choose an integer with such a probability distribution: 1/2 for the number 1; 1/4 for the number 2; 1/8 for the number 3; and so on. The probabilities will sum to 1, there will be an infinite number of probabilities, and none will be zero. It is perfectly reasonable.

Also, it will not fundamentally change the theorem if some of the probabilities are allowed to be zero.