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by OskarS
2452 days ago
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But... but... you can't "pick a number uniformly distributed in (-inf, inf)". Like, that's not a thing that is possible [0], so saying anything about the probabilities once you've done so is not reasonable. You can pick a random number in infinite range non-uniformly (e.g. to pick a number in the range [1,inf), pick a number X in (0,1] and use 1/X), but then the probabilities are no longer so neat and tidy. The game only makes sense if you attach limits to the numbers the other person is allowed to pick, and then the only "split" that works is in the middle of the range. At which point the game is sort-of "obviously true". [0] https://math.stackexchange.com/a/14169/641751 |
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