Randomness is a tricky thing. Open up a text document and put your a finger on two different keys (for instance 1 and 0). Now very rapidly type a sequence of those two characters (taking about five seconds to do so), but try to make the sequence as random as possible.
Here is what I got:
1010100000100001010100100101011010101011
How random is your sequence? (Mine is pretty nonrandom.) Think about ways of measuring its randomness.
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Hi. I like this question. How to measure the randomness of a series of 1's and 0's? It wouldn't do any good to measure the probability of the event (the entire series) as all events would be equally likely. I think it would help to rephrase the question and measure the prominence of patterns in the series. This could be accomplished by determining a percent match between the given series and a proposed pattern. How to combine the percent matches for different patterns is another question, but a necessary one since we should want a single measurement of randomness. And also, what patterns are indicative of a nonrandom agent producing the series? I hope there is a more elegant solution to the puzzle!
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