Emile comments on Infinitesimals: Another argument against actual infinite sets - Less Wrong

-21 Post author: common_law 26 January 2013 03:04AM

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Comment author: Emile 26 January 2013 08:36:05AM *  -2 points [-]

The coin flipping trick will miss plenty of numbers, like one third - and those that are left have a small but non-infenitesimal probability.

Edit: whoops, my bad, read "countable" as "finite".

Comment author: Thomas 26 January 2013 09:36:42AM *  0 points [-]

in the binary representation