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The digits of pi are incompressible and unpredictable, yielding only to computation, but definitely not random. The word random implies a lack of order that we
by CuriouslyC 5y ago
The digits of pi are incompressible and unpredictable, yielding only to computation, but definitely not random.
The word random implies a lack of order that we can't rightly claim knowledge of.
- naasking 5y ago> The digits of pi are incompressible and unpredictable, yielding only to computation, but definitely not random The BBP formula can be used to calculate the Nth digit of pi without computing all preceding digits. I'd say that's pretty successful compression. > The word random implies a lack of order that we can't rightly claim knowledge of. That we have no knowledge of it does not entail that no such knowledge exists. That's the point I'm trying to make: we have no evidence of such a distinction, we only have evidence of our ignorance of the sequence's cause. The universe could very well be completely deterministic, in which case the set of "random" sequences is empty.