[R] Logical inconsistency

[(Ted Harding)]

On 07-Dec-08 18:41:16, Charles C. Berry wrote:
> 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:
> ---
> 
> [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 ?
> ---
> 
>:-)
> Chuck
> [rest deleted]
> Charles C. Berry                            (858) 534-2098

Well, in principle you can. But achieving the fractional part
has probability zero.

Ted.

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