From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.1 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_05,REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "G.B." Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Lower bounds of Strings Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2021 21:10:34 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <1cc09f04-98f2-4ef3-ac84-9a9ca5aa3fd5n@googlegroups.com> <6450332c-89a8-476d-a112-c98b8bb08009n@googlegroups.com> Reply-To: nonlegitur@notmyhomepage.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2021 20:10:35 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="7999b64c3e06080e9d0390c99cc70f62"; logging-data="14677"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+h/JCDPhXd+HH6wQiP3kX0cK6qU7XKxHA=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.6.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:AeBK0HKuNar6GFj5+rPtRO64J9k= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:61175 List-Id: On 19.01.21 23:27, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: >> The infinite variants tend to be construed so that randomness is a useful fiction; > > The term is countable infinite. Note the word countable, that guaranties that each element has an integer number, ergo randomly accessed by this number. I'll happily leave it at that except for one thing. Let's count and access randomly: Nth_Prime (Exabyte'Last / 2) = ?