Is there a technical name for numbers that are "more random" or better said "more jumbled" than true random numbers?
In a sequence of random numbers, any sequence is equally as likely as any other, so it's possible to have a sequence like "1234567". There are times when such sequences may not be desirable, for example if the MegaMillions lottery drawing came out with that sequence in that order, there would certainly be an inquisition (somewhat justified), and I can think of other cases too. If you run random numbers through a compression algorithm, that sequence may be replaced with an algorithm to generate that sequence if the algorithm is shorter than the sequence itself, so perhaps that would be better. Is this a field of study? Hoyt Stearns Scottsdale, Arizona US
