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- Natural is
constant
- But suppose we put
and then 
has
a priori probability 
i.e., 
constant.
- So the concept of ``complete ignorance'' is not well
defined. Jeffrey (a big bad English-Oxford-book) spends 100's of pages
trying to avoid this difficulty. His efforts are so much garbage.
- Fortunately, there is no trouble for large n because
of both an obvious numerical reason (see next section (i) (d)) and a
not so obvious mathematical reason.
Geoffrey Fox, Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University, gcf@npac.syr.edu