A related, and to my mind even more counter-intuitive result, is a strategy for predicting f(x) given only the values {f(y), y&lt;x}, where f is any arbitrary function on the reals.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.math.upenn.edu&#x2F;~ted&#x2F;203S10&#x2F;References&#x2F;peculiar.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.math.upenn.edu&#x2F;~ted&#x2F;203S10&#x2F;References&#x2F;peculiar.p...</a> [PDF]