Re: Random Data from Geiger Counter

Mok-Kong Shen (mok-kong.shen@stud.uni-muenchen.de)
Mon, 20 Jul 1998 18:58:24 +0100

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On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Enzo Michelangeli wrote:
>

> I meant what Emile Borel called "normal numbers": those whose decimal
> expansion looks like random. "Absolutely normal" are those whose expansion
> is random in any base.

I understand this to mean Borel has a certain definition of true
'randomness'. Would you please supply a reference to literature?

M. K. Shen

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