From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Bob Newell <bobnewell@bobnewell.net>,
"help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: [External] : Re: Morally equivalent
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2022 19:43:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <SJ0PR10MB54889ADA81522C695CE84FBFF3269@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y1tfzhzm.fsf@undisclosedlocation.com>
> > 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?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-16 19:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-16 2:45 Morally equivalent John Haman
2022-10-16 2:55 ` Eduardo Ochs
2022-10-16 3:39 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-16 14:29 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-10-16 14:34 ` Heime
2022-10-16 14:42 ` Dr Rainer Woitok
2022-10-16 15:02 ` Drew Adams
2022-10-16 16:20 ` tomas
2022-10-16 19:27 ` Bob Newell
2022-10-16 19:43 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2022-10-16 20:24 ` [External] : " Bob Newell
2022-10-16 19:58 ` Christopher Dimech
2022-10-16 23:10 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-16 23:17 ` Christopher Dimech
2022-10-16 23:32 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-16 23:47 ` Eduardo Ochs
2022-10-17 1:13 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-10-18 10:44 ` Dr Rainer Woitok
2022-10-17 0:00 ` Christopher Dimech
2022-10-17 0:10 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-17 0:32 ` Christopher Dimech
2022-10-17 0:53 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-17 1:18 ` Christopher Dimech
2022-10-17 4:52 ` tomas
2022-10-17 5:27 ` Christopher Dimech
2022-10-20 14:08 ` Akib Azmain Turja
2022-10-20 16:24 ` Christopher Dimech
2022-10-20 18:29 ` tomas
2022-10-20 19:54 ` Christopher Dimech
2022-10-17 4:49 ` Akib Azmain Turja
2022-10-17 6:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-17 7:48 ` tomas
2022-10-17 9:15 ` Thibaut Verron
2022-10-17 23:01 ` Rudolf Adamkovič
2022-10-18 1:01 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-18 1:07 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-10-18 2:39 ` Po Lu
2022-10-18 3:50 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-18 14:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-18 16:50 ` Christopher Dimech
2022-10-18 23:11 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-10-20 14:05 ` Akib Azmain Turja
2022-10-20 17:14 ` Christopher Dimech
2022-10-17 15:42 ` Christopher Dimech
2022-10-17 11:47 ` Alessandro Bertulli
2022-10-23 10:16 ` Will Mengarini
2022-10-24 14:46 ` Marcin Borkowski
2022-10-24 21:06 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-10-24 21:05 ` Emanuel Berg
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