On 12 Apr 1996 at 20:58:19 Timothy C. May wrote:

At 9:06 PM 4/12/96, rick hoselton wrote:

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... I have these two 8-million byte files. One is a recording made by a geiger counter, every bit is uncorrelated with anything else in the universe ...

No, this is not the case. Suppose your file of 64 million bits of entropy is stored as "Rick's Geiger Counter File,"...

I left the word "you" out of one sentence. My line breaks are very strange. I wrote "chronologist" when I meant "horologist". I revealed a US-centric point of view, and I broke a New Year's resolution by contributing to the noise level on the cypherpunks mailing list. But I did not forget to say:

...every bit is uncorrelated with anything else in the universe ...

:) Rick Hoselton It's not really fair to call me crazy, just because one of my personalities is paranoid/schizophrenic. Rick F. Hoselton (who doesn't claim to present opinions for others)