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- From: brock@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Bradley W. Brock)
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- Subject: Re: measures of the `size' of infinite sets
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.170045.1617@cs.rose-hulman.edu>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 17:00:45 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep9.042345.7472@galois.mit.edu> jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C.
- Baez) writes:
-
- [a discussion of a natural way to calculate the density of a subset of
- integers]
-
- > The set of integers that are multiples of 29 has density 1/29.
- > The set of integers that aren't has density 28/29.
- >
- > Exercise to see if you get it: figure out, or guess, the density of the
- > prime numbers.
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- Similarly, one can define the density of a subset of integer pairs in the set
- ZxZ.
- A more interesting (though slightly more difficult) exercise is: determine the
- density of the set {(a,b) such that a and b are relatively prime}.
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