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- From: bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
- Newsgroups: sci.math,sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Bayes' theorem and QM
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 22:45:27 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec31.024039.2740@smsc.sony.com> markc@smsc.sony.com (Mark Corscadden) writes:
- >Blair, there's an excellent discussion of this in the sci.math faq:
- >17Q.- Cutting a sphere into pieces of larger volume
-
- Actually, not excellent enough.
-
- What would really help me at this point is if someone
- could email me a decent explanation of this (or at least
- a direct pointer to a sufficient reference):
-
- > The esiest decomposition "paradox" was observed first by Hausdorff:
- >
- > 6) The unit interval can be cut up into COUNTABLY many pieces which,
- > by *translation* only, can be reassembled into the interval of
- > length 2.
- >
- > This result is, nowadays, trivial, and is the standard example of a
- > non-measurable set, taught in a beginning graduate class on measure
- > theory.
-
- --Blair
- "Something about needing more
- gaps in my knowledge..."
-