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arxiv: 1601.00665 · v1 · pith:GVUKKOCRnew · submitted 2015-12-30 · 📊 stat.OT

Impugning Randomness, Convincingly

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John organized a state lottery and his wife won the main prize. You may feel that the event of her winning wasn't particularly random, but how would you argue that in a fair court of law? Traditional probability theory does not even have the notion of random events. Algorithmic information theory does, but it is not applicable to real-world scenarios like the lottery one. We attempt to rectify that.

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