Re^2: Reverse engineering a formula...

With apologies for the thread drift:

Worse still, there are an uncountably infinite number of different formulas that can "justify" the sixth number being -7 x phi.

Surely a "number of different formulas" is an integer, and therefore countable?

Polonius

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Re^3: Reverse engineering a formula... by Moron (Curate) on Jun 13, 2006 at 16:06 UTC
You have a countable and finite number of intersections between a candidate function and the sample data, but the candidates may vary across real space in between the intersections, making them uncountable in number. -M Free your mind	[reply]