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Yea I guess we couldn't tell if somebody gave us a number that was special to them but appeared random. Afterall, the alien's physical constant (or rather, the
by sacrosancty 4y ago
Yea I guess we couldn't tell if somebody gave us a number that was special to them but appeared random. Afterall, the alien's physical constant (or rather, the arbitrary definitions of their units) would have effectively been chosen by a random number generator just like ours are.
If you pick a random sequence from a random source, then it's truly random by definition, isn't it? Even if it happens to be 1111111. It might score badly on a randomness measure but no randomness measure is truly perfect.