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If it's a random real then the probability is zero. If it's an arbitrarily close approximation to a random real then the probability is arbitrarily close to zero.


How can the sum of infinitely many zero probabilities be 1? I can understand how the sum of infinitely many infinitely close to zero values can be 1, but not infinitely many exactly zero values


There's no such thing as a "sum of infinitely many" anything. What we are talking about is the limit of an infinite series, which behaves nothing at all like a sum.




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