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A number chosen truly at random will have infinite digits (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I think it's right

Edit:

TIL: when saying random numbers, some people think to integers, others to real numbers.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I also think that's correct... if we are talking about real numbers.

People are probably thinking about integers. I'm not sure about OP.

EDIT: I think it also works with p-adic numbers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Yes real numbers, but as far as I'm aware it'll happen for integers too almost surely

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I think you're confusing "arbitrarily large" with "infinitely large". See Wikipedia Arbitrarily large vs. (...) infinitely large

Furthermore, "arbitrarily large" also does not mean "infinitely large". For example, although prime numbers can be arbitrarily large, an infinitely large prime number does not exist—since all prime numbers (as well as all other integers) are finite.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

For integers I disagree (but I'm not a mathematician). The set of integers with infinite digits is the empty set, so AFAIK, it has probability 0.