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by nwallin 1046 days ago
"Effectively zero" times infinity is infinity. Infinity is like... really big.
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Oh, I wish I could find it, but there's an excellent video by a mathematician explaining why an infinity doesn't work in your favor here. IIRC, it's because as the number of throws approach infinity, the odds also approach being infinitesimal, and you'll still lose.
This paradox is famously a case where the expected value of the game is infinite.