On 07-Dec-08 18:41:16, Charles C. Berry wrote: > On Mon, 8 Dec 2008, Berwin A Turlach wrote: >> G'day Wacek, >> On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 10:49:24 +0100 >> Wacek Kusnierczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> [....] >>>>> there is, in principle, no problem in having a high-level language >>>>> perform the computation in a logically consistent way. >>>> >>>> Is this now supposed to be a "Radio Eriwan" joke? > [snip] > >> Classical Radio Eriwan stuff, and I thought this class of jokes have >> died out..... > > Evidently there are a few diehards still out there. From this > http://www.theologyweb.com/campus/showthread.php?t=55535 > thread: > --- > > [Question:] Can the gamma function be used in combinatorics? > > [Answer:] As Radio Eriwan would have said "In principle, yes", > because it interpolates the factorial. > > But what does it mean to throw a dice with pi sides sqrt(15) times ? > --- > >:-) > Chuck > [rest deleted] > Charles C. Berry (858) 534-2098
Well, in principle you can. But achieving the fractional part has probability zero. Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 07-Dec-08 Time: 19:06:03 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
