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Re: Still on LOPs
From: Rodney Myrvaagnes
Date: 2002 Apr 21, 19:41 -0500
From: Rodney Myrvaagnes
Date: 2002 Apr 21, 19:41 -0500
On Sat, 20 Apr 2002 20:50:28 +0100, George Huxtable wrote: >I sent the following message, in error, to Rodney Myrvaagnes directly, >rather than to the list. So here it is copied again to all. Rodney has >replied directly to me, and I hope he will now copy the relevant parts of >his reply to the list. > >= This is exactly one point I was making. They cannot be compared. As I have shown in other posts, you can't show that positions will lie outside a cocked hat without saying something about what distribution you are talking about. I apologize for saying you chose the rectangular dist. On Sat, 20 Apr 2002 11:18:26 +0100, George Huxtable wrote: >His references to Newton and Liebnitz are quite bogus. In one case we are >considering the probability of a point lying within a defined area. In the >other, the probability of a point lying on a line. The first is infinitely >greater than the second. > Rodney Myrvaagnes J36 Gjo/a "Nuke the gay whales for Jesus" -- anon T-shirt