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To: antiRepublicrat
Given infinity, everything has a probability approaching 1.

Infinite doesn't mean all-encompassing. (There are infinitely many even integers, but the list also excludes infinitely many integers -- the odd ones.)

Even given an infinite universe, some things still might not happen. (Impossibilities, for example; the probability that 1=2 will remain zero.)

84 posted on 12/05/2005 7:03:40 AM PST by TheGhostOfTomPaine
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To: TheGhostOfTomPaine
Infinite doesn't mean all-encompassing. (There are infinitely many even integers, but the list also excludes infinitely many integers -- the odd ones.)

The infinite monkeys still stands. They will create not just all shakespeare, but every written work ever created, and in order of creation. If a probability is more than zero, it will probably happen given infinity.

(Impossibilities, for example; the probability that 1=2 will remain zero.)

a = 1, b = 1  
Therefore: a = b
*a a2 = ab
-b2 a2-b2 = ab-b2
factor (a+b)(a-b) = b(a-b)
cancel(a-b) a+b = b
Put original values in 1+1 = 1
Result 2 = 1

Have a nice day. :)

99 posted on 12/05/2005 7:26:57 AM PST by antiRepublicrat
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