At 9:46 AM +0800 2/13/08, Rob Freeman wrote:
>On Feb 13, 2008 5:19 AM, Pat Hayes <phayes@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> But OK, let me accede to my own strictures. You are right, any variable
>> which incorporates a degree of chance may be called 'random'; and Sean is
>> right that a sampling of such values may well provide statistical
>> information about likelihoods. Nevertheless, my original point still holds.
>> When we are talking about what is usually called a 'random sequence' of
>> numbers or bits, as spoken of in Kolmogoroff theory, what makes such a
>> sequence have maximal information density is that there is no way to compute
>> any one of its values from all the others.
>
>I think that's right Pat. But, with respect to you all, I'm not
>talking about extracting information about the next bit. (01)
I have no idea what you are talking about. I was referring to
Kolmogoroff theory. (02)
Pat
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