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Re: Continuous and discrete uniform distributions of N
Posted:
Dec 25, 2012 4:46 AM
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In <virgil-523D87.23482724122012@BIGNEWS.USENETMONSTER.COM>, on
12/24/2012
at 11:48 PM, Virgil <virgil@ligriv.com> said:
>The standard definition of probability requires that the sum of the
>probabilities over ANY set of sets making up a partition of the space
>be equal to one.
For purposes of proving that there is no uniform distribution over N,
finite additivity is enough. In a more general context, the standard
definition uses countable additivity.
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