At 9:20 AM -0800 3/29/02, Hal Finney wrote: >That's true, but even so, a coin with a .95 chance of coming up heads >and a .05 chance of coming up tails is "simpler" by your definition >than a fair coin, right? Even though the parameter is not adjustable, >the presence of an ad hoc value like .95 makes it seem intuitively less >simple than a fair coin, at least to me.
Suppose it's a computer program that produces 95% 1's and 5% 0's...In that case I don't see this. Bill