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  1. Newsgroups: sci.math
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!agate!dog.ee.lbl.gov!hellgate.utah.edu!lanl!beta.lanl.gov!ttw
  3. From: ttw@beta.lanl.gov (Tony Warnock)
  4. Subject: Re: Some BIG and SMALL sets of integers.
  5. Message-ID: <1992Sep12.232024.16308@newshost.lanl.gov>
  6. Sender: news@newshost.lanl.gov
  7. Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
  8.  
  9.  
  10.   How does the "smallness" of sets lacking 3-digit distribution
  11.   compare with Besicovich's proof that almost all integers
  12.   are n-epsilon normal. That is, digit strings of length
  13.   n occur with correct frequence to within epsilon if large enough
  14.   numbers are considered.
  15.  
  16.   This result seems to be almost (but not quite) contradictory
  17.   to that of the sums of reciprocals.
  18.  
  19.   Or maybe I've missed the whole issue.
  20.  
  21.                                Tony Warnock
  22.  
  23.  
  24.                               It's a bug - it's not a feature;
  25.                               Its an ugly little creature.
  26.                               Every time that I improve it,
  27.                               Code-rewriting to remove it;
  28.                               It just metamorphosizes
  29.                               In another of its guises.
  30.                               Yet again disgruntled users
  31.                               Deem me one of their abusers.
  32.                               Loathe to sit around and fidget
  33.                               I create another digit;
  34.                               Tack it on the public version;
  35.                               Then for marketing coercion:
  36.                                 I announce another UPGRADE!
  37. References: <1992Sep11.171806.778@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>
  38. Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 23:20:24 GMT
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