[R] Logical inconsistency

[Charles C. Berry]

On Mon, 8 Dec 2008, Berwin A Turlach wrote:

> G'day Wacek,
>
> On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 10:49:24 +0100
> Wacek Kusnierczyk <Waclaw.Marcin.Kusnierczyk at idi.ntnu.no> wrote:
>
> [....]
>>>> there is, in principle, no problem in having a high-level language
>>>> perform the computation in a logically consistent way.
>>>
>>> Is this now supposed to be a "Radio Eriwan" joke?


[snip]

> Classical Radio Eriwan stuff, and I thought this class of jokes have
> died out.....
>

Evidently there are a few diehards still out there. From this

 	http://www.theologyweb.com/campus/showthread.php?t=55535

thread:

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[Question:]    Can the gamma function be used in combinatorics?

[Answer:] As Radio Eriwan would have said "In principle, yes", because it 
interpolates the factorial.

But what does it mean to throw a dice with pi sides sqrt(15) times ?

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:-)

Chuck

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