What are the odds of picking any random number out of an infinite set of numbers?

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I’ll just explain why I have come to this question here. I was thinking about the multiverse thing. It occurred to me that if the multiverse is real, as in an infinite quantity of universes, then there is an infinite number of universes where you exist in every variation and an infinite number of universes where you don’t exist in every variation. So if, at random, a portal links two universes together, there is a chance that you will link to a universe with another version of you. It seems like the probability of this would he low, but not zero, despite the fact there would be infinitely more universes without a version of you than there would be with one.

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The chance is “almost surely not” wich is a number that is mathematically indistinguishable from zero, but actually positive. So it CAN happen but you should expect an Infinite number of trials until it happens on average. 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almost_surely

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