Re: Randomness from data

From: Bryan Olson (fakeaddress_at_nowhere.org)
Date: 12/13/04 

Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 07:22:50 GMT

Mok-Kong Shen wrote:
>
> Bryan Olson wrote:
>
>> Mok-Kong Shen wrote:
> What I disagree IS that I 'never' said in past threads on
> randomness anything about a 'rule' involving certain 'lower
> bounds', either with these words verbatim or with synonyms
> of them.

It doesn't matter if you call it a rule or method or algorithm. You can
call it measuring or determining; randomness or entropy. The measurable
characteristics of a source do not give us any figure as the minimal
amount of entropy. We've been over that many times and it absolutely is
synonymous with what I wrote here. The answer is not going to change. 

-- 
--Bryan

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