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- From: victor@watson.ibm.com (Victor Miller)
- Subject: Re: measures of the `size' of infinite sets
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- In-Reply-To: sasrdt@shewhart.unx.sas.com's message of Wed, 9 Sep 1992 19:50:56 GMT
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 21:46:26 GMT
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- >>>>> On Wed, 9 Sep 1992 19:50:56 GMT, sasrdt@shewhart.unx.sas.com (Randall D. Tobias) said:
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- Randy> In article <1992Sep9.170045.1617@cs.rose-hulman.edu>, brock@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Bradley W. Brock) writes:
- Randy> |>
- Randy> |> In article <1992Sep9.042345.7472@galois.mit.edu> jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C.
- Randy> |> Baez) writes:
- Randy> |>
- Randy> |> [a discussion of a natural way to calculate the density of a subset of
- Randy> |> integers]
- Randy> |>
- Randy> |> > The set of integers that are multiples of 29 has density 1/29.
- Randy> |> > The set of integers that aren't has density 28/29.
- Randy> |> >
- Randy> |> > Exercise to see if you get it: figure out, or guess, the density of the
- Randy> |> > prime numbers.
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- Randy> What's the density of the set of prime powers? Ie. how many Galois
- Randy> fields are there?
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- The answer is 0 (now that's not what you expected is it). More
- precisely, the number of prime powers less than x is asympototic to x/log x.
- Randy> --
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- Randy> Randy Tobias SAS Institute Inc. sasrdt@unx.sas.com
- Randy> (919) 677-8000 x7933 SAS Campus Dr. 72450.2545@compuserve.com
- Randy> (919) 677-8123 (Fax) Cary, NC 27512-8000 norat@aol.com
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- Randy> ... just my $(-exp(2*sqrt(-1)*arcos(0))/(((2**(2 + 1)) - 1)**2 + 1)).
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