hi, Thank you-one more question. Will the information obtained from the 2^32 tests have a zero compression rate? If one of the occurance should yield all heads and one occurance yields all tails-there appears to be scope for compression.
If the output is random,then it will have no mathametical structure,so I shouldn't be able to compress it at all. Regards Sarath. --- Dave Howe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > for a sufficiently large sample you *should* see > roughly equal numbers of > heads and tails in the average case - but : > for 32 coins in 2^32 tests you should see: > one occurance of all heads (and one of all tails) > 32 occurances of one tail, 31 heads (and 32 of one > head, 31 tails) > 496 occurances of two > and so forth up the chain > none of these are guaranteed - it *is* random after > all - but given a > sufficiently large number of tests, statistically > you should see the > above. > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com