Showing posts with label Emile Borel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Emile Borel. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Randomness cannot be defined

"Borel's conclusion is that there can be no one definitive definition of randomness. You can't define an all-inclusive notion of randomness. Randomness is a slippery concept, there's something paradoxical about it, it's hard to grasp. It's all a matter of deciding how much we want to demand. You have to decide on a cut-off, you have to say «enough,» let's take that to be random."
Gregory Chaitin, Meta Math!, Complexity, randomness and incompleteness.