What does randomness look like?

Re:What does randomness look like? by Dylan16807 on Saturday December 22, 2012 @04:20AM (#4956209)

I can give you one simple argument. Ten items shuffled have 10! entropy, while ten independent rolls have 10^10 entropy. How is that not far less random?

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Re:What does randomness look like? by baddox on Saturday December 22, 2012 @04:34AM (#4956228)

Because amount of entropy has nothing to do with "amount of randomness."

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Re:What does randomness look like? by mistercow on Saturday December 22, 2012 @02:25PM (#4957256)

I'm pretty sure that entropy is pretty much the only sane definition you could give of "amount of randomness".

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Re:What does randomness look like? by Dylan16807 on Saturday December 22, 2012 @04:45AM (#4956249)

> entropy is a measure of the uncertainty in a random variable

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