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    You’ve added details that aren’t in the question. It’s like asking what are the odds of rolling a “one” on a 1d4, and then saying “Well, if it’s not a fair 1d4, then …”

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      … I… I literally talked about this. It’s the first words.

      They don’t say that the random answer is chosen uniformly (though that is the norm in the field). If we relax that,…

      What more was needed?

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        If we relax that, …

        The question is as posed. We have no indication that we should assume a different distribution of “random”.

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          My favorite indication that someone is using a word in an unusual way is that their question has no answer if you interpret it as usual. I reply to you because you argued very nicely that, if this makes sense at all, it must be with a different use of language than we expect.