Timeline for What does it mean when we say we have computed a number to a certain accuracy using a probabilistic algorithm?
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| Dec 25, 2014 at 0:55 | history | edited | Bjørn Kjos-Hanssen |
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| Dec 25, 2014 at 0:26 | answer | added | Gerry Myerson | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 24, 2014 at 21:41 | history | edited | Timothy Chow | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 24, 2014 at 17:09 | answer | added | Ilmari Karonen | timeline score: 5 | |
| Dec 24, 2014 at 16:09 | answer | added | David Z | timeline score: 5 | |
| Dec 24, 2014 at 15:08 | comment | added | Steven Gubkin | I do not know anything about this stuff, but I would assume that instead of saying something about a particular sequence $\pi_n$, you could make statements like "In 97.4232... percent of trials, when $n>10$, we have $|\pi_n - \pi|<0.01$". You could ask questions like "If I want a 99% confidence that $|\pi_n-\pi|<0.001$, how large should I take $n$?". | |
| Dec 24, 2014 at 7:03 | answer | added | Bjørn Kjos-Hanssen | timeline score: 5 | |
| Dec 24, 2014 at 6:18 | history | edited | Ritwik | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 24, 2014 at 6:03 | history | asked | Ritwik | CC BY-SA 3.0 |