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Timeline for answer to A question on subgroup-restricted irrationality measures by Anthony Quas

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Apr 26, 2014 at 7:17 comment added Steven Stadnicki For the most part; the one concern I see is in the spacing, since there's no guarantee of uniformity across the range. Still, it looks like the core concept - there are only polynomially many numbers in an exponentially-sized range, so you can't expect any sort of density of the sort needed here - is a solid one.
Apr 26, 2014 at 6:59 comment added Anthony Quas @Steven Stadnicki: Is my argument convincing to you? It seemed to be ignored by the OP.
Apr 26, 2014 at 1:45 comment added Steven Stadnicki (Wait, silly mistake on my part - the dyadics aren't a subgroup under multiplication, only addition, as e.g. the inverse of $\frac32$ isn't in this group. The group of powers of 2, of course, isn't dense in $\mathbb{Q}^+$.)
Apr 25, 2014 at 21:28 comment added Steven Stadnicki This doesn't make sense to me - it seems like the measure has to be at least $1$, since for every $q$ there's some $p$ with $\left|\frac pq-x\right|\lt\frac1q$. Certainly this holds for e.g. the dyadics.
Nov 25, 2013 at 19:08 history answered Anthony Quas CC BY-SA 3.0