Re: functions
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- Subject: [mg45757] Re: functions
- From: drbob at bigfoot.com (Bobby R. Treat)
- Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 03:15:50 -0500 (EST)
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Unfortunately, a randomly chosen real number that ISN'T irrational according to this test still has probability 1 of being irrational. (If the probability measure is anything reasonable, anyway -- if the CDF has only countably many points of discontinuity, for instance.) The probability that a user intended the number to be rational, on the other hand, is completely imponderable. Bobby Selwyn Hollis <sh2.7183 at misspelled.erthlink.net> wrote in message news:<btthrc$so2$1 at smc.vnet.net>... > On second thought, I think this is a better idea: > > IrrationalQ[x_] := Denominator[Rationalize[x,.0001]] > 50 > > With it, IrrationalQ[Random[]] returns True most of the time, as it > should (probability approx .85), but returns False often enough to be > interesting. > > ----- > Selwyn Hollis > http://www.math.armstrong.edu/faculty/hollis > (edit reply-to to reply)
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