Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5907266-20160109034728/@comment-5907266-20160110231720

That's where the term "effectively" comes into play. What I presented up there claims that there are infinitely more numbers than there are non-numbered events. If you take the limit of a/x as x approaches infinity, where a is some positive constant, you get zero. Technically, it never reaches 0, but it keeps getting closer and closer. So "at" infinity (you can never get to infinity as it's just a concept), you're looking at a number that's infinity small but still have value. (An infinitesimal is what this is called.) So there's an infinitely small chance that you can roll a non-number, but there's a 99.99999999999999999...% chance of rolling a number. (For the record, if you write 99.99999... as a rational number, it's 100.)

So I'm claiming the number of numbers dwarfs the number of non-numbers by this extreme. Basically, Ford got an extremely lucky roll in that episode such that he had an infinitely small chance within an infinitely small chance to bring those characters to life.

Of course, there are concepts in mathematics that I don't know like measure theory, which might apply here, so I could be off a tad.