Re: Randomness

From: "Matt Zellman" <matt.zellman@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 2 Sep 2006 18:20:04 -0700

mensanator@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Matt Zellman wrote:

are the following string of digits random?

Not likely.

I suppose that was kind of a stupid question. Are they random by some
definition of random? and if so, what definition?

0101000000000000000000000000000010000100100000000110001000000000

0000110110111110001010100010011100110011011011011001100110100110

1101110011101111010000001101011100000111101111111101000110100110

0000000000000000000000000100000000010000000001000000000000001000

1010110100111010011010100010011001100010011010010001100100100110

1010100111100001010110111101000100001000010100101001000001011100

here's a better question. Could the preceding six strings of digits
conceivably be randomly generated?

Sure.

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