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Is it true that if you randomly selected a natural number, the odds of it being higher than grahams number is almost 100%?

There are an infinite number of numbers. The numbers smaller than grahams number compose an almost infinitesimal fraction of all of them. Is this correct?
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>>17059502
>almost
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>>17059502
yes in fact it's the number most almost 100% possible
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>>17059504
>almost
Exactly 100%
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>>17059502
I did a monte carlo simulation, out of a million randomly generated numbers only about 3.4% of them were bigger than Graham's
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>>17059502
>you randomly selected a natural number
You can't randomly select a natural number. There are events which have probability 0 but can still happen, and the probability of selecting a natural number assuming they are uniformly distributed goes to 0 as your sample set of naturals gets infinitely large.

If you select a number larger than grahams number it quite literally either happens or it doesn't.
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>>17060656
Roll an infinite-sided die (e.g. a sphere)
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>>17060651
>I did a monte carlo simulation
no you didn't



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