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Actually I'd argue the example you provided is normal, as long as you authorise a particular encoding where every number n you're looking for is encoded as a st
by landryl 6y ago
Actually I'd argue the example you provided is normal, as long as you authorise a particular encoding where every number n you're looking for is encoded as a string of n zeros.
It's then trivial to see that every number you can think of is encoded in there, and therefore any data, piece of music or movie that ever existed.
(I'm not sure we're allowed to fiddle with the encoding, but since we allow ourselves to represent a piece of music into a number, we're already talking about encoding anyway, so it doesn't seem like cheating to me...)
- enedil 6y agoNormality of a number is with respect to number bases, so your trick with encoding is invalid. Otherwise, every computable number could be considered normal - take an algorithm for generating of it, supply a random string (this is the encoding), disregard the random string, and you have a perfectly valid normal representation of your number. So it is cheating.
- NieDzejkob 6y agoI agree that normality is a specific formalized concept, but you could always require that an encoding function like this is injective.
- dheera 6y agoEncoding doesn't count. Normality is a very specific mathematical concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_number Also, 1.01001000100001... is a good example of a number that is both irrational and transcendental but not normal.