Can math.atan2 return INF?

Lawrence D’Oliveiro lawrencedo99 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 30 03:16:12 EDT 2016


On Thursday, June 30, 2016 at 6:57:41 PM UTC+12, Paul Rubin wrote:

>> Every time somebody tries to point to an example of a “topic that is
>> beyond the reach of science”, it seems to get knocked over eventually.
> 
> Generate a sequence of "random" bits from your favorite physical source
> (radioactive decay, quantum entanglement, or whatever).  Is the sequence
> really algorithmically random (like in Kolmogorov randomness)?  This is
> scientifically unknowable.

The definition of “random” is “unknowable”. So all you are stating is a tautology.



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