Re: Computing Randomness

From: Jacques Mallah <jackmallah.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 22:50:36 -0400

    Maybe Hal, Russel and Jurgen should take this discussion to email and
just let us know how it turns out, because I get enough junk mail already.

>From: Hal Ruhl <hjr.domain.name.hidden>
>>T4=T1 and T2, T5=T1 or T2, T6=T1 and T2 or T3, are also theorems.
>>We can construct an infinite variety of these theorems.
>
>You are writing programs and they have a complexity. Chaitin limits this
>complexity to no more than the complexity of the FAS plus a constant. Thus
>there can not be an infinite number of such constructions.

    I don't want to get involved in this, but let me just remind you that
the complexity of an infinite set of objects is much often lower than the
complexity of a typical member drawn from that set. I would think no one on
this list forgets that.

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