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Old 10-29-2007, 12:35 AM
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Default Re: Understanding normal distribution graphs

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If the probability of any particular outcome is zero, how does anything ever happen? (assuming something with a zero probability cannot happen)

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I may not know enough about the subject to answer this correctly. But this is how I think about it. Let me know if I'm wrong.

Since a continious distribution is made up of an infinite number of mutually exclusive possibilies, the probably of one of those events occuring is infinity*0. Which is not equal to zero.

let C be some real finite number greater than 0

C/infinity = 0

infinity*0 = C > 0
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