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To: Alamo-Girl
Then you haven't understood the significance of Champernowne (or Borel's work on which it is based.)

Champernowne's construction (and some that I have invented, too) generate all possible finite bit patterns with the proper frequency. These sequences are not random, but they do satisfy the strong law of large numbers. The frequency of 0 and 1 is 1/2; the frequency of 00,01,10, and 11 is 1/4,; etc.

These sequences can be combined with pseudo-random-number generators to break up obvious correlations in the geneators. It's useful, but still doesn't produce a random sequence.

645 posted on 06/29/2003 9:04:48 PM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: Doctor Stochastic
Thank you for your reply!

I am not claiming that Champernowne's constant is a random number! I am saying because it is not a random number, Omega cannot be in it - and neither can Shakespeare.

647 posted on 06/29/2003 9:12:45 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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