Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Mar 17)
Erik Max Francis
max at alcyone.com
Mon Mar 17 23:07:40 EST 2003
Peter Hansen wrote:
> But it's irrational, right? So irrationality is now defined as
> normal?
No. Irrational does not necessarily imply normal. Take for instance
the irrational number (decimal expansion):
0.1010010001000010000010000001...
This number does not terminate and does not repeat, so therefore it is
irrational. However, it clearly does not have a normal distribution for
all digits (or indeed even for the only two decimal digits which
appear). Thus it is irrational, but not normal.
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