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I know the IEEE standard does for numerical precision reasons, but I’m asking mathematically. I ask because I’ve been thinking about how:

(VAGUE LANGUAGE BEGINS HERE) the sum of uncountably many zeros can be non-zero. For example, the length of an interval, or probability for continuous random variables, how $P(omega) = 0$ for all $omega$, but $P( 0 le omega le 1) > 0$. Perhaps it’s because the $0$ in $P(omega) = 0$ was always somehow $0^+$, something more than $0$, because it was $frac1infty$, a something divided by infinity, so increasingly closer to 0, but from the right-hand side. (VAGUE LANGUAGE ENDS HERE)

I’m aware there’s no real paradox; I haven’t defined uncountable sums, so who’s to say anything about their behaviour? However, I do wonder if there is something to the idea of tracking whether we got to $0$ through a limit that approached from the left, versus from the right (or in some other direction, or multiple directions), and use that information to make predictions about whether the ‘uncountable sum’ (again, I know I haven’t defined it) will be positive or negative.

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  Do you mean "the sum of uncountably many zeros can be non-zero"? That being said, have a look at non-standard analysis.
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  We distinguish between $lim_xto0^+f(x)$ and $lim_xto0^-f(x)$. The rest, I think, is gibberish.
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I know the IEEE standard does for numerical precision reasons, but I’m asking mathematically. I ask because I’ve been thinking about how:

(VAGUE LANGUAGE BEGINS HERE) the sum of uncountably many zeros can be non-zero. For example, the length of an interval, or probability for continuous random variables, how $P(omega) = 0$ for all $omega$, but $P( 0 le omega le 1) > 0$. Perhaps it’s because the $0$ in $P(omega) = 0$ was always somehow $0^+$, something more than $0$, because it was $frac1infty$, a something divided by infinity, so increasingly closer to 0, but from the right-hand side. (VAGUE LANGUAGE ENDS HERE)

I’m aware there’s no real paradox; I haven’t defined uncountable sums, so who’s to say anything about their behaviour? However, I do wonder if there is something to the idea of tracking whether we got to $0$ through a limit that approached from the left, versus from the right (or in some other direction, or multiple directions), and use that information to make predictions about whether the ‘uncountable sum’ (again, I know I haven’t defined it) will be positive or negative.

probability-theory infinity

share|cite|improve this question

edited Mar 13 at 10:24

Yatharth Agarwal

asked Mar 13 at 10:16

Yatharth AgarwalYatharth Agarwal

542418

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• 
  
  
  

  
  1
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  $begingroup$
  Do you mean "the sum of uncountably many zeros can be non-zero"? That being said, have a look at non-standard analysis.
  $endgroup$
  – Arthur
  Mar 13 at 10:20
  
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  $begingroup$
  We distinguish between $lim_xto0^+f(x)$ and $lim_xto0^-f(x)$. The rest, I think, is gibberish.
  $endgroup$
  – Gerry Myerson
  Mar 13 at 11:51
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

$begingroup$

I know the IEEE standard does for numerical precision reasons, but I’m asking mathematically. I ask because I’ve been thinking about how:

(VAGUE LANGUAGE BEGINS HERE) the sum of uncountably many zeros can be non-zero. For example, the length of an interval, or probability for continuous random variables, how $P(omega) = 0$ for all $omega$, but $P( 0 le omega le 1) > 0$. Perhaps it’s because the $0$ in $P(omega) = 0$ was always somehow $0^+$, something more than $0$, because it was $frac1infty$, a something divided by infinity, so increasingly closer to 0, but from the right-hand side. (VAGUE LANGUAGE ENDS HERE)

I’m aware there’s no real paradox; I haven’t defined uncountable sums, so who’s to say anything about their behaviour? However, I do wonder if there is something to the idea of tracking whether we got to $0$ through a limit that approached from the left, versus from the right (or in some other direction, or multiple directions), and use that information to make predictions about whether the ‘uncountable sum’ (again, I know I haven’t defined it) will be positive or negative.

probability-theory infinity

share|cite|improve this question

edited Mar 13 at 10:24

Yatharth Agarwal

asked Mar 13 at 10:16

Yatharth AgarwalYatharth Agarwal

542418

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share|cite|improve this question

edited Mar 13 at 10:24

Yatharth Agarwal

asked Mar 13 at 10:16

Yatharth AgarwalYatharth Agarwal

542418

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edited Mar 13 at 10:24

Yatharth Agarwal

asked Mar 13 at 10:16

Yatharth AgarwalYatharth Agarwal

542418

asked Mar 13 at 10:16

Yatharth AgarwalYatharth Agarwal

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asked Mar 13 at 10:16

Yatharth AgarwalYatharth Agarwal

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