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| title: "House Oversight: Estate Documents (Nov 12) (HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015878)" |
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| Are the Androids Dreaming Yet? |
| I know you're looking for the difference but you won't find one, as |
| I did not have time to write the numbers out in full. The 1020000th digit is |
| different, but even if I took the whole age of the universe and counted |
| as fast as possible I would not reach this digit. Any number greater |
| than, 10120/10-43 digits cannot be distinguished from another in the age |
| of the observable universe. Real numbers are in practice subject to an |
| uncertainty principle. Some mathematicians even wonder whether they |
| really exist. But, they do exist in our minds and our thought experiments. |
| In my view, any model of the Universe that ignores them is likely to be |
| wrong. |
| Random Numbers |
| Which of the following numbers is random? |
| 11111111111111111 |
| 34289460370124001 |
| 49293741762343083 |
| THINK ABOUT YOUR ANSWER THEN READ ON |
| Each of the numbers could be random. There is no reason any set |
| of 10 digits is more likely than another, but it feels very unlikely that if |
| I tried to generate a random number I would get 15 consecutive digits. |
| What a human means by random is a jumbled up number: one with |
| varying digits that have no real pattern. An American mathematician, |
| George Chaitin has been able to explain this by saying that a random |
| number is uncompressible. This means there is no way to describe the |
| number more efficiently than writing it out in full. A string of ones |
| can be compressed. "Write a million 1s" takes only 18 characters, yet |
| accurately describes a number that is a million digits long. By contrast |
| 8988376132 can't be compressed very much at all, its information |
| is just a jumble. There are many interesting numbers around. Some |
| numbers are Hamlet; some numbers are pi. One interesting number is |
| the following: 17733173332032037377. It is the genetic sequence for the |
| virus smallpox, or at least the first 20 digits. Copies of the full sequence |
| sit under lock and key in the Pasteur Institute in France and the CDC in |
| Atlanta. This number is a candidate for an 'evil' number. You might think |
| there are many numbers that could represent smallpox because there are |
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