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Subject: Apparent vs. "Real" Order
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Date: Mon, 19-Dec-83 15:09:10 EST
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From:            Charlie Crummer <crummer@AEROSPACE>

Randomness contains order because humans create the order. The old saw about
the million monkeys at a million typewriters eventually writing all of 
Shakespeare's works is an example. A true random symbol generator will 
produce all possible strings of symbols. Some of these strings will seem to
be ordered but only because we BRING the concept of order to the string.
Order is not an attribute of the string but is a property added by the
observer. That is the result of the experiment: When asked to find order
people create it.

  --Charlie