The infinite list of random numbers

2001-11-08 Thread Norman Samish
Suppose an ideal random number generator produces, every microsecond, either a zero or a one and records it on a tape. After a long time interval one would expect the tape to contain a random mix of zeroes and ones with the number of zeroes equal to the number of ones. Is this necessarily true?

Re: Anthropic Principle

2001-11-08 Thread Marchal
I give here Brett Hall message to the FOR list because I mentionned it in a "interfering post". Bruno === Just to be caviling... Marchal wrote: > > Gordon wrote: > > >[Gordon]I think what I was getting at was how Humans get this not Comp > >however I kno

Re: Anthropic Principle

2001-11-08 Thread Marchal
Jesse Mazer wrote (to Russell Standish): >Aha! You've hit on something similar to my own pet TOE, which is that the >global measure on observer-moments can somehow be derived from a sort of >"theory of the anthropic principle" which would have to blend in with some >type of formal theory of

Re: Article: The Parallel Universes of David Deutsch

2001-11-08 Thread Marchal
Gordon wrote: >> You know where I am coming from? Where I am coming from? >> >[Gordon]How do you prove the Non Physical? What is the link? Are you suspecting I got some Natural Number on the head after which I became a true believer in Numberland? Mmh... Brett Hall is right things are the ot