(February 16, 2014 at 4:11 pm)Ziggy Wrote: jesus_wept- Interesting, not sure about the math but there could be something to it. What Muslim/site were you debating with so I could possibly see their arguments or contact them?
The thread's been deleted.
(February 16, 2014 at 4:34 pm)rasetsu Wrote:
I think your calculation of the odds of a number which reads the same backwards as forwards is wrong, but your first point is quite powerful. (The odds of a number which reads forward and backwards being divisible by a number would be the number of such numbers which are divisible divided by the number which have a common divisor. If you exclude primes and only focus on large numbers, this ratio is going to be large as it includes all numbers with a large factor in common, as that common factor is likely to have a common divisor less than 10 as that's just the way factoring numbers works. So.... I guess it comes down to [total of all large forward-backward pairs] - [total number that don't have a common divisor(?)] / [total of all large forward-backward pairs]. I think..... )
(?) Is that the same as relatively prime?
I have no idea what this means tbh.
I was simply going on any number has a one in seven chance of being a multiple of seven and if you reverse it so does that number. It seems logical to me and I think you may be overcomplicating things but I'm no mathematician.
Perhaps someone more qualified could answer?
