Comment on P(X = exact value) = 0: Is it really counterintuitive?

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 18:13:51 GMT

I implicitly meant a continuous distribution. Clarified that in the post now.

Concretely, if you're measuring the length of something with a ruler, you probably just round to the nearest 1/16th of an inch.

As someone who lives in the dangerous and uncharted part of the world called "outside the US', I prefer centimeters. ;)

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