On the probability that two random integers are coprime — mentioned by mturmon

Fri, 10 May 2024 17:57:23 GMT

This comment opens perhaps a bigger can of worms than intended. The original statement: >> You can't uniformly sample an unbounded set. [of real numbers] is true, provided that by "sample" we mean "sample in a way that obeys Kolmogorov's axioms". (I'm adding the qualifier "of real numbers" to keep this somewhat grounded, so that we don't get distracted with abstract metric spaces, or worse.) In the above comment, by placing a limit on the set ([-N, +N]), you have made the set bounded -- thereby contradicting the premise of the original statement! * Your last paragraph is interesting. Suffice…

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On the probability that two random integers are coprime — mentioned by mturmon