Re: Re: Creating a Random Function to Select an Irrational
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- Subject: [mg102243] Re: [mg102210] Re: [mg102176] Creating a Random Function to Select an Irrational
- From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
- Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 06:01:00 -0400 (EDT)
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On 1 Aug 2009, at 20:54, Andrzej Kozlowski wrote:
>
>
> As an example: we could generate irrational numbers approximately
> uniformly distributed in the interval {0,1} by a formula like this:
>
> Rationalize[RandomReal[{0, 1}], 0] + Sqrt[2]/10^18
>
> the numbers so obtained are certainly irrational and approximately
> uniformly distributed. Looking at their digits is not likely to
> reveal any "regularity" but of course we know that they the
> generated sequence has a "regularity": the difference of any two
> numbers is always rational.
This was certainly incorrect: one will of course see the regularity if
one looks at enough digits.
Andrzej
> There are obviously infinitely many ways of generating similar
> sequences and they are obviously all equally useless.
>
> A more interesting (in my opinion) way to generate a random real
> number is by specifying its digits as follows:
>
> r[0] = RandomInteger[{0, 1}, 1];
> r[n_] := r[n] = Append[r[n - 1], RandomInteger[{0, 1}]]
>
> This defines a unique real number, almost certainly irrational,
> whose digits can be computed (in principle) to arbitrary precision,
> e.g. in this case
>
> N[FromDigits[{r[120], 0}, 2], 100]
> 0.5216581269311984505815006839069293336802568327655056358867877566088653250230499323902844110989462934
>
> In reality this number will be "irrational" only if the random
> number generator is truly random, otherwise the series of digits may
> start repeating at some point and the number will turn out to be
> rational.
>
> Related to the above but more interesting and deeper examples of
> random irrationals are Chaitin constants (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ChaitinsConstant.html
> ).
>
> Andrzej Kozlowski
>
>>
>> (The good and bad news may seem contradictory, but they are not.)
>>
>> So, the only way to get irrational numbers in Mathematica is using
>> symbols
>> (Pi, E, for instance) and expressions you know are irrational, such
>> as
>> Sqrt[2]. Your link shows a few other ways. But it's hard to call
>> creating
>> one of these "random".
>>
>> You could make a long list of irrational numbers and randomly
>> sample them,
>> perhaps adding several together... but I don't see what you could
>> prove or
>> accomplish, with such a procedure.
>>
>> Bobby
>>
>> On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 04:57:40 -0500, BenT <brtubb at pdmusic.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Although Mathematica has built-in functiona to obtain random
>>> integers
>>> and real
>>> numbers, I need to select a random irrational number. At this
>>> webpage,
>>>
>>> http://mathworld.wolfram.com/IrrationalNumber.html
>>>
>>> several definitions are given for known conditions to create
>>> irrational numbers, such as
>>>
>>> Numbers of the form n^(1/m) are irrational unless n is the mth power
>>> of an integer.
>>>
>>> Can anyone define a function to allow a similar capability as
>>> Random[]
>>> in selecting a "member" from the above defined "set" of values, or
>>> any
>>> other of the definitions listed on the same webpage?
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> DrMajorBob at bigfoot.com
>>
>
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