Our conversation went from defining randomness more or less formally to questions likeAare some random sequences more random than others? andAis it really possible to have one good definition for "random"?. It happens (and this time the coincidenceAis relevant) that he had recently read a book which, among other things, talked about randomness. This was the first time I heard about Gregory Chaitin and his book,AThe Limits of Mathematics.

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Posted: September 26th, 2010
at 10:50pm by Koookiecrumbles


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