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> rather generate a number

How?

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If you picked that, you did not pick uniformly from the unit interval. You picked from something else, which was much smaller.

baduser

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I guess, but, the set is not even countably infinite. "Selecting at random" is something that happens in the real, non-infinite world, not in the mathematically rigorous would where infinities can exist. So, no, probability-zero events do not happen in either.

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> Probability-zero events happen all the time. The probability of getting any specific value selected uniformly at random from the unit interval (say, 0.232829) is zero.

I would strongly challenge that claim. First, you did not choose that number uniformly at random, you chose it from at best a countably infinite subset, or more realistically, from a finite subset. And secondly, I do not think you can describe a situation where a number is actually chosen uniformly and randomly from the unity interval.

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