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[trialanderror620]

idk if im allowed to do this, but i gotta question for you: if you choose the answer to this question at random, what is the chance you will get it right?

25%

50%

60%

25%

please answer this.

[singingbanana]

@trialanderror620 It's a paradox, which logicians may want to puzzle over but in day-to-day mathematics we can ignore as paradoxes are deliberately excluded.

[TyYann]

Do you ship to Korea?

[singingbanana]

@TyYann Yes they will. Look at information under shipping.

[treegraph]

Looks like you're sweating like you've done some sport. Eighter rolling dice is really stressful or you might wanna work on your Three-point lighting.

[singingbanana]

@treegraph Nah. I have a habit of making these videos after a shower in the morning.

[Vellwander]

Can tell he's a theoretician :)

"I've made A THING!"

[AmFilms123]

Its awesome irrespective of whether you are trying to sell or not. Keep the (Fun) Math vids coming.

[IIRobertll]

@trialanderror620 It's not necessarily a paradox, just unanswerable. The odds of you picking the right answer are 0%, since none exists that you can pick. 0% isn't in the set, meaning it's consistent (i.e, it's correct and you have a 0% chance of choosing it). So that's the solution, but by definition not one that you can choose. If you had 25%, 50%, 0% and 25% as options, you'd have a better paradox on your hands ;)

[webmastertool]

If you pick a comment at random in this video and apply the laplacian and then the fourier series to my car. What is the probability that a potato is an apple?

[anticorncob6]

@andyspaz3 That's clever. But if there were an infinite number of choices, and one of them was 0%, it would not be a paradox, because 1/infinity = 0.

[bluecombats]

Nice video, i would really enjoy it if you did a doctor who/matt smith impression as well, i reckon it would be brilliant.

[andyspaz3]

@trialanderror620 it's not a paradox, the answer is zero. if, on the other hand, one of the choices was 0%, then it would be a paradox

[trialanderror620]

@singingbanana thanks thats what i thought anyway :)

[WhiteHenny]

@trialanderror620 That;s a good one. I've not seen it put that way before.

[geeta172]

yeah! it annoys some people.....but doncha worry v love u too much to hate you!