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 [email protected] 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
