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Re: Continuous and discrete uniform distributions of N
Posted:
Dec 24, 2012 4:56 PM
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On Dec 24, 1:43 pm, FredJeffries <fredjeffr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 21, 8:41 pm, Bill Taylor <wfc.tay...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Dec 22, 5:23 am, FredJeffries <fredjeffr...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > No one has ever anywhere actually used the concept of a uniform
> > > distributions on N to solve any problem.
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> > Sure they have. You can use it to calculate the probability
> > that two randomly chosen naturals will be co-prime, for example.
> > And many others of that type.
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> Please provide an example of such a calculation or reference to same.
I can't vouch for the quality of all these articles, because my friend
duckduckgo gave me too many hits to do more than glance at them:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprime_integers
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/RelativelyPrime.html
http://primes.utm.edu/notes/relprime.html
http://www.cs.umb.edu/~offner/files/an_num_th.pdf
http:/http://mathoverflow.net/questions/97041/what-is-the-probability-
that-two-numbers-are-relatively-prime/
www.physics.harvard.edu/academics/undergrad/probweek/sol44.pdf
http://www.mathreference.com/lc-z,cop.html
http://www.mathreference.com/lc-z,cop.html
http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/64498/probability-that-two-random-numbers-are-coprime
http://fermatslasttheorem.blogspot.com/2006/09/odds-of-two-integers-being-relatively.html
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