On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 05:23:38PM -0700, meekerdb wrote: > On 4/24/2015 2:57 PM, John Mikes wrote: > >Liz and Friends of Nearer Geography: > >I wrote so many times and nobody reflected so far. > >WHY is 2 + 2 = 4 if there is a VALID concept like RANDOM? > >Why not 2 + 2 = -----175,834? or even '1'? (Without > >changing the game). > >I deny random, it would eliminate all our technology, science, > >physics, etc. etc. > > Random doesn't mean "anything goes", it means not-deterministic. It > means exactly the same system may produce different outcomes. And > if you try to add two meters to two meters your result may well be > 4.0000123 or 3.999876. So far this has not destroyed technology, > science, or physics. Engineers deal with it in every system. > > Brent > 2+2=5 for large values of 2. >
Exactly. Thanks Brent. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
