Re: The infinite list of random numbers

From: rwas <mc68332.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 00:03:09 -0800 (PST)

--- scerir <scerir.domain.name.hidden> wrote:
> "rwas" :
> > To be able to say that a process will be random at infinite time
> would seem to
> > imply a deterministic process that can generate non determinism. :)
>
> That deterministic process might be the construction of
> this true random number generator:
> http://www.gapoptic.unige.ch/Prototypes/QRNG/default.asp
> -s.
>
>
Intuitively, it would seem to me that the entropy of any temporally
aparently random sequence would drop over time.

That is a sequence may have high entropy over some sampling interval,
but then the entropy would drop over a progressively larger sample.

Robert W.

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