[magiluke]

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Infinity is not a concept. Reality is a concept, a sub-set of infinity.

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I like that.

Anyway, what I meant is that 'reality' is not infinite. Just because reality doesn't have a foreseeable end doesn't mean that it is infinite.

A person, in reality, doesn't have the ability to play the lottery an infinite number of times. Firstly, their life span is finite. There are a finite amount of lotteries running a finite amount of games (usually one per day, I believe). The lotteries will exist for a finite amount of time. The person playing has a finite bankroll.

This is the reality I was speaking of. And for the purposes of this reality, and there can not be infinite trials.

I was just giving an example that can't be carried out infinite times, and has a chance of occurring roughly equal to 0.


As for my next example, let's look at the numbers that exist between 0 and 1. There are an infinite amount. Just say that we wrote a program to map out all of these numbers. In reality, this computer would not be able to do it. It also has constraints that disallow it to complete it's task. Most obviously are the memory limitations. Even if we had infinite memory, the system would eventually break down; the connections burn out, e&. Then there are the irrational numbers, that are themselves infinite. The computers would take forever trying to compute just one of these.

That is what I meant, although I do see your point.