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Skeptityke comments on December Monthly Bragging Thread - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Skeptityke 05 December 2013 05:25:26AM 10 points [-]

First thing that comes to mind that I just did tonight...I stumbled across a probability "paradox", noticed that it had an infinity in it, got suspicious, expressed it in a form with finite population size, and took the limit as the population size went to infinity, and what do you know... the paradox vanished in a puff of canceling fractions.