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Thursday, May 21, 2015

There are uncountably many binary sequences whose limiting relative frequency is x.

This is a proof of an elementary result in probability theory that I gave, prompted by a colleague's inquiry, and motivated by the fact that the question had initially stumped a University of Queensland professor of the relevant field of mathematics.

There are uncountably many binary sequences whose limiting relative frequency is x. by Mariusz Popieluch on Scribd

Link to PDF of proof.