On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 12:23:35AM -0400, Richard Ruquist wrote: > On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 10:34 PM, Russell Standish <li...@hpcoders.com.au> > wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 01, 2014 at 04:30:52PM -0400, Stephen Paul King wrote: > > > Hi Russell, > > > > > > Ah! I don't quite grok it completely, but thank you for this example. We > > > had to assume an already existing measure on the Reals. Where does that > > > come from? > > > > > > > The standard measure on the reals is based on the observation that we > > expect the set of real numbers starting with 0.110... to have the same > > measure as those starting with 0.111... That would be a reasonable > > default assumption for most purposes. > > > The measure obtained by compression of the reals in binary form is close to > the quantum mechanic measure, but not exact. > In fact, the quantum measure varies with the scenario, whereas the measure > of the reals is invariant. > Richard >
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