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Multiplying by the inverse is not the same as the division

1 pointsby ibobevabout 2 months ago

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PaulHouleabout 2 months ago
Yes, &quot;half of all floating-point numbers are in the interval [-1,1]&quot; but measures over real numbers and other continuous spaces are about as toxic as you can get<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Banach%E2%80%93Tarski_paradox" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Banach%E2%80%93Tarski_paradox</a><p>In my mind the &quot;real&quot; numbers as described by Cantor ought to be called the phony numbers, whereas there is a lot more reality in the integers or the rationals in that every integer has a name.<p>You could just as well say that &quot;half of the reals are in the [-1, 1] range&quot; in that you could say there is a 1:1 correspondence between x and 1&#x2F;x or you could say there are as many reals in [-1, 1] as there are between [π, 2π].
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