> If something is truly random, it shouldn't be possible to encode it due to the pigeon-hole principle. This statement is obviously untrue. “Random numbers” d

> If something is truly random, it shouldn't be possible to encode it due to the pigeon-hole principle. This statement is obviously untrue. “Random numbers” don’t really exists. The original authors were right about that. Every number/sequence is equally likely to occur. There’s even an XKCD about this [0]. I guess what you mean is: If you have a process that generates sequences randomly, most of those sequences are expected to compress badly. [0]: https://xkcd.com/221/ https://xkcd.com/221/