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That is a pretty powerful result.

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Well now I am in an awkward place because I want to retract what I just published, but what I just published was a nit and by retracting it I distract even more from the very worthwhile and important original post. So here goes as concisely as I can: replacing "the set {1,1,4,4,7}" with "the bag {1,1,4,4,7}" makes the sentence mathematically rigorous but loses because most readers do not know what a bag is, do not have a ready way to find out and do not need to know. Replacing with "the list [1,1,4,4,7]" however wins (and makes the sentence rigorous because if the only operation the experimenter performs on the object is picking an element at random then it does not matter if the object is a bag or a list).

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