*** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: paradoxes of randomness

[Sarad AV]

hi,

Thank you-one more question.
Will the information obtained from the 2^32 tests have
a zero compression rate? 
If one of the occurance should yield all heads and one
occurance yields all tails-there appears to be scope
for compression.

If the output is random,then it will have no
mathametical structure,so I shouldn't be able to
compress it at all.


Regards Sarath.





--- Dave Howe <DaveHowe at gmx.co.uk> wrote:

> for a sufficiently large sample you *should* see
> roughly equal numbers of
> heads and tails in the average case - but :
> for 32 coins in 2^32 tests you should see:
> one occurance of all heads (and one of all tails)
> 32 occurances of one tail, 31 heads (and 32 of one
> head, 31 tails)
> 496 occurances of two
> and so forth up the chain
> none of these are guaranteed - it *is* random after
> all - but given a
> sufficiently large number of tests, statistically
> you should see the
> above.
> 


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