Re: Computing Randomness

From: Hal Ruhl <hjr.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 19:17:36 -0800

At 3/29/01, you wrote:
>Russell Standish wrote:
>
> > In my approach (which didn't have this technical nicety), the ensemble
> > of descriptions obeyed a uniform distribution.
>
>I grab the opportunity to point out that there is no such thing as a
>uniform distribution on infinitely many things. For example, there is
>no uniform distribution on the natural numbers.

If one allows an infinite repeat of each and every natural number is that
not a uniform distribution?

Hal
Received on Thu Mar 29 2001 - 16:58:46 PST