On Dec 29, 2013, at 4:37 AM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote:
On 29 December 2013 13:11, Edgar L. Owen <[email protected]> wrote:
Jason and John,
If something is random it can't be computed by any deterministic
process. That's the meaning.
I thought the digits of pi were random, but computable by a
deterministic process?
The digits themselves are thought to be uniformily distributed, but
they are of course completely deterministic, as well as compressible
(since a short program can generate them).
So it meets at most one of the three definitions for random that I gave.
Jason
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