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Irrationality 2

🔗John Chalmers <JHCHALMERS@...>

11/28/2000 10:06:23 AM

Paul: I checked the Science mag note and the order from most random to
least of the numbers tested is pi, sqr(2), e, sqr(3). The principal
paper in ther series is Pincus, Steven and Rudolf E. Kalman. Not all
(possibly) "random" sequences are created equal. PNAS, USA 94:3515-3518
(April 1997).

--John

🔗Paul H. Erlich <PERLICH@...>

11/29/2000 7:12:08 AM

>Paul: I checked the Science mag note and the order from most random to
>least of the numbers tested is pi, sqr(2), e, sqr(3). The principal
>paper in ther series is Pincus, Steven and Rudolf E. Kalman. Not all
>(possibly) "random" sequences are created equal. PNAS, USA 94:3515-3518
>(April 1997).

Of the numbers _tested_. So there could be a "more random" number than pi,
or at least one "as random", right?