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To: Doctor Stochastic
It's 2/Pi. ... What has this to do with complexity?

Yes it is 2/pi, but you can take that and divide it into one and multiply by two and bingo you have pi. Which you said is not complex. You have a contradiction.

Probability of deterministic mechanisms yielding complexity = 0.00.

Probablity of random mechanisms yielding complexity = 1.00.

1,141 posted on 05/26/2005 9:47:48 PM PDT by AndrewC
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To: All; Doctor Stochastic
[Someone, I forget who, wrote:] Probability of deterministic mechanisms yielding complexity = 0.00. Probablity of random mechanisms yielding complexity = 1.00.

Alert:


1,143 posted on 05/26/2005 9:52:53 PM PDT by Ichneumon
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To: AndrewC

Wrong, there's no contradiction. You are exhibiting a typical misunderstanding of complexity. Complexity applies to strings, not to constants.

2/Pi is the probability of getting a crossing. It need not be complex anymore than the probability of getting heads or tails is complex. It's just a number.

The sequence of crossings (or non-crossings) in a large number of throws may be complex. Any deterministic description of such a sequence (such as alternating crosses and misses) is non-complex. Only a randomly generated sequence can yield complexity.


1,146 posted on 05/26/2005 9:56:34 PM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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