I’m having trouble understanding this last message or how you got these
results, but I guess you’re right about this topic being somewhat straying from
LC.
So, I want to say I really appreciate your help and ideas. I will continue to
attempt to push back the frontiers of my ignorance.
Thanks
Ah well. If I weren't so indifferent I might have. :)
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On September 5, 2020 10:34:47 AM Martin Koob via use-livecode
wrote:
Thanks for the update.
I must say Zydodact has the best
I am officially puzzled and out of my waters.
If you divide the circle in four equal parts using two diagonal lines,
you find that 25 percent of all points have a x-value of more than 70
percent of the radius. Using 200 as radius, 25% of all points x > 141,42
(= cos(45°)*200). But using your
Aha, in prepping my code to send to you, I found an error! Now the Cartesian
Coord code is consistent with the Polar Coord code producing a ratio of about
⅓. Here is the code:
on mouseDown
getStuff
end mouseDown
local tR, tX0, tY0, txl, tX1, tY1, tconstL, tTotCount, tL, tLongCount,
„I am known for making many more mistakes than not!“
Aren‘t we all?
I guess using Cartesian coordinates for choosing points on a circle could
produce some bias, though I have no clear idea how.
So, what is your code?
Thomas
> Am 05.09.2020 um 19:15 schrieb Roger Guay via use-livecode
> :
>
>
You’re absolutely right. I should have been more careful in describing what I
did:
In addition to your method, using polar coordinates, which results in a ratio
of ⅓, I also did a random selection of 2 points on the circle in cartesian
coordinates which produces the ½. Very curious! I am now
That is strange. Choosing two points „at random“ should give a ratio of 1/3.
At least if you choose them by generating two random numbers between 0 and 360
and use this numbers as angles between a fixed line connecting the centre
(e.g. the x-axis) and the line between the centre and the
Thanks for the update.
I must say Zydodact has the best preferences dialog I have ever seen. You
should patent this.
Martin
> On Sep 4, 2020, at 3:23 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
> Zygodact is an easy way to add serial key registration to standalones.
> Version 2.0.1 is
My intent was not to suggest that math is “really’ broken in the Bertrand
Paradox, but it did make me wonder what is going on.
Enter LC. I built a simulation of your description where each of two points on
a circle are randomly chosen. This kind of chord generation is consistently
producing a
Having had no contact with Bertrand Paradox except reading the Wikipedia
entries in English and German, my impression is that this is not a case of
broken math but a case of an ill-defined problem.
Saying that a chord of a circle is chosen at random seems to imply that all
possible chords are
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