On Mon, Oct 5, 2015, Bruce Kellett <bhkell...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> > > The type of random uniformity typified by a normal number is quite hard to > achieve, Randomness of any sort is impossible to achieve by a deterministic algorithm, nevertheless nature somehow came up with uncountably infinitely many normal real numbers. > > > and even harder to prove. > Yes, it's far easier to prove things about normal number in general than it is to prove that any particular number is normal; most think pi and e are normal but there is no proof. I think the number you get when you stick all the prime numbers together 135711131719... has like Champernowne's number also been proven to be normal. > Anything that fails to be me, necessarily fails by a wide margin I disagree, I don't think survival is a all or nothing matter. Did somebody who was shot in the head and suffered massive brain damage survive? Sort of. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
