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Comment author: Viliam_Bur 05 March 2013 08:43:31PM 2 points [-]

And precisely because of how the angel assigned the twins, people would be winning on average in this game.

With infinities, this is possible. Just like in the infinite world, pyramid schemes are possible. You can generate free money simply by having each person with number N send $100 to a person with number N/2.