Recent content by pinwheel111

I thought that would be it. Holy crap. If I go somewhere worse than this when I die, I am going to be real pissed. Mr. Grime, I do have a real dart board, and a real dart. Are you telling me that if I draw a Cartesian coordinate system on the dart board, and throw a dart at it, that I am not...

Maybe I was just kind of confused as to how you'd do that to an actual dart board. You know. The whole degenerate/discontinuous business. Actually the whole example about darts and the Golden Girls had absolutely nothing to do with probability distributions. I got into that when I suggested that...

You're right. I totally didn't even realize that you thought I meant an idealized theoretical construct of THE GOLDEN GIRLS and not the actual T.V. show. But I thought it might be a problem, which is why I began the second paragraph of my original post with, "Anyway, to avoid a purely...

"What I hear you saying is Prob(Set of irrationals) = 1, which I agree with. That is a different statement than saying you or Data would or could hit particular irrational points. You are just as unlikely to hit (\pi,\pi) as (0,0)."You're just screwing with me. Aren't you. You are. I can tell...

But with the intelligent dart and especially with the thread, the accuracy ascribed to them will be qualified by the familiar notation, "+/- x units" to allow for error. Beyond this, the coordinates are irrational. Even if you walk up to the dart board and put the dart in (0,0), the actual...

I recently tried to engage one of my professors with the idea that every application of mathematics to the real world can only involve irrational numbers if perfect measurement is allowed (with the notable exception of counting loosely defined or symbolically perfect ideas, like, how many apples...

Here's an easier way to think about it. If zero's are allowed to be one or both of the first two numbers, then there are 100,000 possible outcomes of the form aaxxxaa. Since there are 10,000,000 possible outcomes, then your probability is 100,000/10,000,000, or 1/100. Finding out that there are...