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Re: [External] : Re: Morally equivalent
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Bob Newell |
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Re: [External] : Re: Morally equivalent |
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Sun, 16 Oct 2022 10:24:05 -1000 |
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Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>> > What is a 'moral equivalence' in Emacs Lisp?
>>
>> I have actually seen this expression used in a similar manner
>> in what is supposed to be a serious mathematical textbook.
>> Grimmett & Welsh, in "Probability, An Introduction" state
>>
>> "A slightly different but morally equivalent definition of a
>> discrete random variable is a function X : Omega -> R such
>> that there exists a countable subset S ⊆ R with P(X ∈ S) = 1."
>
> And what did you conclude it meant there?
>
> Just as good? More or less the same? Not
> worse? Equivalent modulo some unstated or
> maybe unknown but probably unimportant or
> trivial diffrences?
>
> Something else?
I couldn't conclude a single thing from "morally equivalent" and
it's hardly a textbook I recommend or like (for many reasons
but that's way off topic). I found it interesting and amusing
that the same expression turned up elsewhere, that's the
extent of it.
--
Bob Newell
Honolulu, Hawai`i
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