Random is not maximally disordered; it involves a degree of disorder that is less than the maximum possible disorder that might be obtained for a sequence of measures, symbols, etc. So, if random is defined by a (however slight) degree of order, may that order be equated with aperiodic repetition of some other "originating" sequence?
Bhadrachalam Chitturi
Dear Mr Buckley,
Did you mean a periodic repetition instead of aperiodic repetition?
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William R. Buckley
No, I do not mean periodic repetition, for if a sequence is periodic, then it is not random; periodicity implies predictability. I do not expect any part of a random sequence to exhibit periodic repetition. Hence, the assertion of a-periodicity.
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