Re: Calculus XOR Probability

In article <MPG.1ed2a21cdf417cb798acd7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Tony Orlow <aeo6@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

cbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx said:
Tony Orlow wrote:
cbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx said:
Tony Orlow wrote:
cbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx said:
stephen@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
cbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Well, one might then ask: why does he believe it in the finite case
to
/start/ with? Because he read it in a book? Or because it can be
proven
by a mathematical argument?

I thought about it in two ways.

First:

<actual proof snipped>

Second, list the naturals, in unary.
1
11
111
1111
11111
111111
......

See how it forms a diagonal half of a square?

No, I don't. Now what?

Cheers - Chas



So, no comment on the proof, and you don't see this array as being a
square cut
diagonally in half.....never mind.

1 is the whole thing.

1
11 is 3/4 of a rectangle.

1
11
111 is 2/3 of a rectangle

Where is this alleged square that is cut in half?


It's a visual proof.

"Visual" proofs, are only valid in geometry, if there.

This is why people hate math.

Math is too simple for some people to grasp.

People like TO who always try to make things more complicated than they
are will never succeed at math.
.

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