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I suppose I should be the first to point out that 982.002 is not actually an integer :) But, as the article puts it, "suspiciously close". Except, I guess you'
by phaemon 6y ago
I suppose I should be the first to point out that 982.002 is not actually an integer :)
But, as the article puts it, "suspiciously close". Except, I guess you'd accept .003 as close also. And, from the other side, you have .999, .998 etc. If you accept the range .995 to .005 as "close", that's already 11 values, so around 1 in 90 chance of hitting it at random.
Except, there might be other "suspicious" values. Like, .100, .200 etc. That gives us another 9. And then you could have things like .111, .222 etc.
If you accept around 50 different suspicious values of some sort then there's a 1 in 20 chance of hitting one at random. That doesn't seem so suspicious to me.