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To: AndrewC

Again you are making common mistakes in probability. Just because a random mechanism yields pi does not make pi complex. By your reasoning, 1/2 would be complex as there are random mechanisms which yield 1/2.

Pi is not complex because there are simple mechanisms, which I already posted to you, that yield pi.

Likewise you are mistaken in the meaning of probability 1. These matters are covered in elementary courses in probability theory.


1,224 posted on 05/27/2005 6:10:23 AM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: Doctor Stochastic
Just because a random mechanism yields pi does not make pi complex.

These are your definitions, not mine.

Probability of deterministic mechanisms yielding complexity = 0.00.

Probablity of random mechanisms yielding complexity = 1.00.

Dropping a pin on parallels is a random mechanism. What does it yield that is complex? The square root of two? /sarcasm

1,321 posted on 05/27/2005 12:22:48 PM PDT by AndrewC
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