On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 4:23 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:

>  On 12/28/2013 4:09 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
>
> For a long time I got opponent saying that we cannot generate
> computationally a random number, and that is right, if we want generate
> only that numbers. but a simple counting algorithm generating all numbers,
> 0, 1, 2, .... 6999500235148668, ... generates all random finite
> incompressible strings,
>
>
> How can a finite string be incompressible?  6999500235148668 in base
> 6999500235148669 is just 10.
>

It took you 2 more digits to represent that number in that way.

Jason

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