On 6/22/2015 3:50 PM, John R Levine wrote:
The US debt has many digits, and is published regularly by an agency
with a tradition of not fudging the data. It's a perfectly reasonable
source of randomness.
Why do you feel that's true?
There could easily be an artifact in how it's calculated that biases
certain values or increments, which could affect the numbers posted.
Because I have some familiarity with the way the US debt works.
Entropy proofs aren't typically based on the principle of "some
familiarity".
The low
digit probably isn't random since most debt is sold in $1000 increments
and there may be some artifact of the way the interest is rounded, but
other than that
Yes. Other than that.
Joe