Re: My claim on Omega's defn

From: Ralph Hartley (hartley_at_aic.nrl.navy.mil)
Date: 02/03/05

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    r.e.s. wrote:
    > <examachine@gmail.com> (I think) wrote...
    >> Now, I must make the additional claim that, within all computable
    >> reals, only Omegas would be random.

    > Of course you meant to say "noncomputable reals".
    ...
    > I thought you were referring to the remarkable fact that x is a random
    > r.e. real in (0,1) iff x is a Chaitin Omega.

    That's much better!

    At least it's not so obviously false that if someone claims it is a theorem
    I might believe them long enough to look at the proof. Also, I can see how
    such a proof might go, though I haven't worked it out.

    There are a countable number of Omegas, and I'm pretty sure there are an
    uncountable number of random non-computable reals. R.e. reals are
    countable, so that works better.

    Ralph Hartley


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