Comment Provably impossible (Score 1) 989
A binary string is said to be random in
algorithmic information theory (my area of mathematics)
if it is not significantly compressible.
(I won't get into exactly what this means here
but you get the idea...)
Anyway,
anything that is compressible by a factor of
100 must have a huge amount of structure for
the compressor to take advantage of, and so
is highly non-random by definition. Clearly then their "virtually
random" data is not random in the slightest.
In fact in order to be compressible by this
factor it must be EXTREMELY non-random!
algorithmic information theory (my area of mathematics)
if it is not significantly compressible.
(I won't get into exactly what this means here
but you get the idea...)
Anyway,
anything that is compressible by a factor of
100 must have a huge amount of structure for
the compressor to take advantage of, and so
is highly non-random by definition. Clearly then their "virtually
random" data is not random in the slightest.
In fact in order to be compressible by this
factor it must be EXTREMELY non-random!