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: Does the point turn on whether we are filling classical or quantum buckets ? [[User:Hout|Hout]] ([[User talk:Hout|talk]]) 13:03, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
:: Not for this task. Classical is fine. The Aristotelian view is sufficient to explain now (as a point whose motion creates time), so I can say "now if I want to explain the line at the edge of a shadow ..."--[[User:Nigel Galloway|Nigel Galloway]] ([[User talk:Nigel Galloway|talk]]) 13:33, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
::: Thank you for the solution and explanation. (And that's a relief – I was worried that we couldn't machine a fence-width finer than the Planck length, and that a special case at one end or other of the scale was going to be inescapable) [[User:Hout|Hout]] ([[User talk:Hout|talk]]) 13:49, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
==Intervals and binning==
Using the [[wp:Interval_(mathematics)#Notations_for_intervals|notation]] where round parenthisis, <code>( or )</code> is used to '''exclude''' an endpoint and square parenthisis, <code>[ or ]</code> is used to '''include''' it.
We can start with a range of numbers: <code>[min, max]</code> all the numbers fall in the interval.
We split into several contiguos bins, and for Python at least, there is the tradition of including the minimum of ranges and excluding the maximum. This naively leads to
:<code>[min<sub>i</sub>, max<sub>i</sub>)</code> bin intervals for the <code>i<sup>th</sup></code> bin<br>
:Where <code>max<sub>i</sub> == min<sub>i + 1</sub></code>.<br>
Numbers falling on any ''interior'' boundary will automatically counted in the ''higher'' bin, but what happens to the highest number? It is '''excluded'''.
To fix this you could:
# Make the upper range of the last bin inclusive.
# Or add an extra bin at the high end for this one, maximal, value.
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--[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] ([[User talk:Paddy3118|talk]]) 08:26, 12 March 2019 (UTC)
:Where is this extra bin coming from? Surely there are 8 bins. Only 8 bins. Not 7 and never 9. Oh, and no fence-posts--[[User:Nigel Galloway|Nigel Galloway]] ([[User talk:Nigel Galloway|talk]]) 14:34, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
::I wrote to highlight the boundary issues. I wouldn't chose the second option. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] ([[User talk:Paddy3118|talk]]) 18:30, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
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