10 Nov
2006
10 Nov
'06
11:59 a.m.
On 11/10/06, Cordwell, William R <wrcordw@sandia.gov> wrote:
Well, that might be true, but is there any sense (maybe measure theory?), even if I don't have a nicely defined concept of picking a value at random, where I can still talk about the relative probability?
--Bill C.
You can talk about the density of primes near an integer, something that is often called "the probability that a randomly chosen number is prime" even though that statement doesn't parse. You could therefore talk about the density of derangements near a given permutation, where distance between permutations is the number of transpositions required to transform one into the other. -- Mike Stay metaweta@gmail.com http://math.ucr.edu/~mike