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		typon on Oct 12, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A variable signal at heart of the Milky Way "Random" is a very loaded word. If you were looking at some arbitrary nth digit of pi it would look random to you as well.

hasmanean on Oct 12, 2021 | [–]

Some people will describe any non-periodic signal as random.

mcculley on Oct 12, 2021 | [–]

Compressed or encrypted data should also look random.

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