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Old 10-26-2004, 10:58 AM
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Default Re: Doomsday Thereom

Well your logic is equivilent to the following. X is a uniform random variable on (0,1). A specific value of X, call it a, is chosen. a happens to be .25. Since a was .25 there is a 50 percent chance that a uniform random variable chosen on (0, 1) will be greater than .25.
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