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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 16:00:26 -0600
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On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 3:32 PM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn
<PointedEars@web.de> wrote:
> Ian Kelly wrote:
>
>> The probability of 123456789 and 111111111 are equal. The probability
>> of a sequence containing all nine numbers and a sequence containing
>> only 1s are *not* equal.
>
> There is a contradiction in that statement.  Can you find it?

Yes. I phrased my statement as if I were addressing a rational
individual, in clear contradiction of the current evidence.

Seriously, if you reject even the statement I made above, in spite of
all the arguments that have been advanced in this thread, in spite of
the fact that this is very easy to demonstrate empirically, then I
don't think there's any fertile ground for discussion here.