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To: Diamond
None of your three criteria is useful as an algorithm for distingishing between the Old Man of the Mountain and Mount Rushmore.

Both the Old Man of the Mountain and Mount Rushmore are elements from the set of all rock faces, and therefore pass 'contingency'.

I have no idea how you decide a priori how an event is determined by chance; for example, here are seven 20 digit numbers

33588436280199230657

02617758870469338514

10567955361381575760

60446034969299744510

29423394179949485805

61585390589368582681

57283648575787347867

Six were generated using a random-number generator. One is decidedly non-random. Which is it?

As for specification; all look like faces, and having seen them all, coming up with an independent pattern will not be possible.

Want to try again?

BTW, anyone want to try the randomness challenge? In order to rule out random guessing, you need to tell me what the non-random number is.

1,149 posted on 02/28/2003 11:11:29 AM PST by Right Wing Professor
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To: Right Wing Professor
Six were generated using a random-number generator. One is decidedly non-random. Which is it?

The third number.

1,152 posted on 02/28/2003 11:35:59 AM PST by Nebullis
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