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Re: Would you call this a paradox?

by "Doug Wedel" <dougwedel@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Jun 25, 2008 at 08:36 AM

"Frederick Williams" <frederick.williams2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:48622DC9.E2CC8684@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Doug Wedel wrote:
>
>> ineluctably to the conclusion that information is at its maximum in 
>> random
>> numbers.
>
> Let's suppose that the digits of pi are "random", i.e. that pi is
> normal.  Then with an appropriate coding of letters and punctuation
> marks by strings of digits, pi contains all the works of Shakespeare.

In other words, all normal non-repeating transcendentals contain _all_ 
information?

It leaves the definition of "information" entirely untouched.  I was
merely 
asking whether
Shannon and Kolmogorov's definition of "information" led to a paradox.
 




 19 Posts in Topic:
Would you call this a paradox?
"Doug Wedel" &l  2008-06-24 12:17:59 
Re: Would you call this a paradox?
William Elliot <marsh@  2008-06-24 21:15:58 
Re: Would you call this a paradox?
"Doug Wedel" &l  2008-06-25 08:39:38 
Re: Would you call this a paradox?
Frederick Williams <fr  2008-06-25 12:36:41 
Re: Would you call this a paradox?
"Doug Wedel" &l  2008-06-25 08:36:34 
Re: Would you call this a paradox?
"Peter Webb" &l  2008-07-07 13:01:45 
Re: Would you call this a paradox?
kunzmilan <kunzmilan@[  2008-06-25 06:42:08 
Re: Would you call this a paradox?
kunzmilan <kunzmilan@[  2008-06-25 12:48:50 
Re: Would you call this a paradox?
kunzmilan <kunzmilan@[  2008-07-07 10:40:43 
Re: Would you call this a paradox?
Pubkeybreaker <pubkeyb  2008-07-07 11:21:01 
Re: Would you call this a paradox?
Pubkeybreaker <pubkeyb  2008-07-07 11:21:20 
Re: Would you call this a paradox?
"Peter Webb" &l  2008-07-08 12:24:48 
Re: Would you call this a paradox?
kunzmilan <kunzmilan@[  2008-07-08 02:11:22 
Re: Would you call this a paradox?
kunzmilan <kunzmilan@[  2008-07-08 10:32:53 
Re: Would you call this a paradox?
"AngleWyrm" <  2008-07-11 00:43:35 
Re: Would you call this a paradox?
kunzmilan <kunzmilan@[  2008-07-12 00:42:36 
Re: Would you call this a paradox?
"Mike Terry" &l  2008-07-12 15:04:47 
Re: Would you call this a paradox?
"AngleWyrm" <  2008-07-26 21:28:51 
Re: Would you call this a paradox?
hagman <google@[EMAIL   2008-07-28 03:51:21 

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