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Past exam of the year 1 of the computer science course of the University of Oxford 2019 Discrete mathematics, continuous mathematics, and probability resit 9 b ii Solution by
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The missing axiom is normalization: . The zero set function satisfies both displayed requirements but is not a probability measure, showing why this condition is essential.
The incomplete axiom needs countable additivity: for every sequence of pairwise disjoint events ,The stated two-event version implies finite additivity, but does not supply this requirement for a countably infinite collection. Together with nonnegativity and normalization, this gives the usual probability measure axioms on the sigma-algebra .
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