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Re: A modest proposal (was Calculus XOR Probability)

Subject: Re: A modest proposal was Calculus XOR Probability
From: Virgil
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 10:47:31 -0600
Newsgroups: sci.math
In article <a8cd9$44361149$82a1e228$7446@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
 Han de Bruijn <Han.deBruijn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Virgil wrote:
> 
> > There is nothing is probability theory that says anything like that 
> > limit process applied to finite spaces has to carry over in any way to  
> > any infinite space.
> 
> Oh, it's much worse than that! There is nothing in _mathematics_ that
> says anything like that limit process applied to finite spaces has to
> carry over in any way to any infinite space.
> 
> Han de Bruijn

Quite so!

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