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The first billion of digits of Pi might look pretty random, but there might be a short program which genrates them - which can be considered a compressed form.
by dorgo 9y ago
The first billion of digits of Pi might look pretty random, but there might be a short program which genrates them - which can be considered a compressed form. In general, it is impossible to decide how good a given string might be compressed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity
- foota 9y agoMight be a short program that generates them? I'm going to go ahead and file that in the understate of the century folder.