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Comment author: nshepperd 21 December 2010 02:33:44PM *  4 points [-]

Do you assign probability 1 to the proposition that 182547553 is prime? Right now, without doing an experiment on a calculator? (well, computer maybe. For most calculators testing this proposition would be somewhat tedious)

If yes, would you willing to pay me $10 if you ever found out it was not prime?

Conversely

Do you assign probability 0 to the proposition that 182547553 is prime? Right now, without doing an experiment on a calculator?

If yes, would you willing to pay me $10 if you ever found out it was prime?

EDIT: Actually, I suppose this counts as "doing it again", even though I'm not Peter de Blanc. I think that makes me a bad bad person.