Yes but the mathematician considers the numbers under 100 to be very small fraction of the numbers under, 1000, or 10^12 or something. Or, in math language, a very small portion of the natural numbers.
As some one who rights stats libraries, I can see it now.
"Bug: code does not work with an input of 1"
"1 is of approaching-zero-significance when you consider all of the other test cases we are meeting. 1 is not the responsibility of this lib. Feel free to fork. ======= issue closed."
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Yes but the mathematician considers the numbers under 100 to be very small fraction of the numbers under, 1000, or 10^12 or something. Or, in math language, a very small portion of the natural numbers.
As some one who rights stats libraries, I can see it now.
"Bug: code does not work with an input of 1"
"1 is of approaching-zero-significance when you consider all of the other test cases we are meeting. 1 is not the responsibility of this lib. Feel free to fork. ======= issue closed."