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RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION

Posted By: Fabrice Liardet
Date: Tuesday, 22 June 2010, at 11:51 a.m.

In Response To: RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION (Ray Kershaw)

I think that the standard definition of randomness is incompressibility as defined in the framework of Kolmogorov complexity. But this is theoretical and computing the Kolmogorov complexity is another affair. By the way, it makes the simple random number generators very far from random, by definition.

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  Ray Kershaw -- Monday, 21 June 2010, at 7:14 a.m.
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    Maik Stiebler -- Monday, 21 June 2010, at 12:51 p.m.
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    Sam Pottle -- Monday, 21 June 2010, at 4:37 p.m.
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    Jason Lee -- Monday, 21 June 2010, at 4:56 p.m.
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    Frank Berger -- Monday, 21 June 2010, at 9:48 p.m.
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    Timothy Chow -- Monday, 21 June 2010, at 11:46 p.m.
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    Fabrice Liardet -- Tuesday, 22 June 2010, at 11:51 a.m.
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      Timothy Chow -- Tuesday, 22 June 2010, at 5:24 p.m.
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        Fabrice Liardet -- Tuesday, 22 June 2010, at 7:31 p.m.