A question for the mathematicians on this site

[iNcog]

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[edeholland]

The correct possibility is simply 1/16^n where n = infinity, I don't understand why it is complicated more than it should be.

And the question is whether that equals to 0 or not. Reflux demonstrates it is, you are claiming it's not.

[RefluxSemantic]

The correct possibility is simply 1/16^n where n = infinity, I don't understand why it is complicated more than it should be.

It's not complicated though. You're just not educated enough to answer the question. For your info, 1/infinite = 0.

[j_t_kirk]

The correct possibility is simply 1/16^n where n = infinity, I don't understand why it is complicated more than it should be.

And the question is whether that equals to 0 or not. Reflux demonstrates it is, you are claiming it's not.

It equals 0. @RefluxSemantic is right. lim n->inf (1/16^n) = 0. This is one of the first things we learned in university.

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For explanation google "why is 1/x infinite zero"

[princeofcarthage]

The correct possibility is simply 1/16^n where n = infinity, I don't understand why it is complicated more than it should be.

And the question is whether that equals to 0 or not. Reflux demonstrates it is, you are claiming it's not.

It doesn't equal to zero, it tends to zero, which for all practical purposes is considered zero. Ask any mathematician he will tell you the same, don't know where esoc's self proclaimed mathematicians left their common sense though.

[RefluxSemantic]

The correct possibility is simply 1/16^n where n = infinity, I don't understand why it is complicated more than it should be.

And the question is whether that equals to 0 or not. Reflux demonstrates it is, you are claiming it's not.

It doesn't equal to zero, it tends to zero, which for all practical purposes is considered zero. Ask any mathematician he will tell you the same, don't know where esoc's self proclaimed mathematicians left their common sense though.

No, you're mistaken. It is 0. The problem is in how you turn Edeholland's question into a mathematical problem. The number infinite does not really exist, so the only relevant case is what the limit of x-> infinity is. So we must formulate the problem as I did on page 1, and then we realize that indeed you can't get infinite free shots.

[iNcog]

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[gibson]

Why is everyone overthinking this with nerd math shit? Its obviously possible to get an infinite amount of shots because every time you spin the wheel and get the shots + free spin you have 1/16 chance to spin the same thing again.

[RefluxSemantic]

Idk I'm kind of leaning towards siding with Carthage on this one. but I guess I will need to look into it

https://www.quora.com/Is-1-infinity-equal-to-0

This one explains it the best.

[princeofcarthage]

I am confused. He says exactly the same thing as I

[RefluxSemantic]

Theres some serious dunning kruger shit going on here

[RefluxSemantic]

What he says is that asking what 1/infinity is is not even a meaningful question, because infinity is not a number.

[gibson]

Theres some serious nerd math shit going on here and not enough thinking about the real life situation

[gibson]

Anyone who believes its impossible believes that there is a point where you spin the wheel and get the shots+respin and that on the respin its impossible for the spinner to land on that same section again. Gamblers fallacy at its finest and absolutely absurd when you think about it in terms of real life instead of nerd math.

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The real life situation is that you very obviously can't win infinite free shots because there's no such thing as infinite free shots. Infinity is not a number. It can't be used to quantify anything, and that includes shots.

[harcha]

the question was is it impossible to get infinite shots. the answer was that the probability is basically zero (in other words it is as possible as having infinite time and infinite attempts) @gibson

[gibson]

The real life situation is that you very obviously can't win infinite free shots because there's no such thing as infinite free shots. Infinity is not a number. It can't be used to quantify anything, and that includes shots.

Well yes but thats the boring way to answer it.

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Yeah and the non-boring way is to get into some "serious nerd math shit", i.e. to stop thinking in practical terms and get theoretical. Practically it's obviously not possible.

[iNcog]

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[gibson]

Just because an event has 0 probability doesn't mean its impossible. For example if you spin a wheel that has every real number on it(so an infinite amount of numbers) there's 0 chance for it to land on any individual number, and yet it still lands on a number.

[harcha]

@gibson the question was about "infinite" number which requires "infinite" time so by the definition of question the maths is irrelevant as answer is no

[harcha]

Just because an event has 0 probability doesn't mean its impossible. For example if you spin a wheel that has every real number on it(so an infinite amount of numbers) there's 0 chance for it to land on any individual number, and yet it still lands on a number.

no, the chance would be 1/infinity which is more than 0

[iNcog]

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[princeofcarthage]

Go out, make some girlfriends and get laid rather being nerd on website trying to score e-8=====D points