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- From: clong@remus.rutgers.edu (Chris Long)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Puzzles
- Message-ID: <Aug.14.02.31.41.1992.27181@remus.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 06:31:41 GMT
- References: <1992Aug7.160145.21016@galois.mit.edu> <1992Aug11.154417.26681@galois.mit.edu>
- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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- In article <1992Aug11.154417.26681@galois.mit.edu>, John C. Baez writes:
-
- > Sorry you found it painful. Of course I was not only saying this but
- > proving it. I was quoting the Mathematical Intelligencer's solution,
- > which I think some might find easier to understand than the other
- > approach, which is to note that {cm mod 1} must have a cluster point
- > since the unit interval is compact. Of course that approach is
- > nonconstructive.
-
- But it can be made constructive (mirroring the same approach you gave).
- For finding actual examples, it is also more important to know that
- {c*m} is uniform modulo 1 than it would be to know this algorithm.
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- on the average, older." Wallis & Roberts, _The Nature of Statistics_
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