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Irrational numbers are an infinite source of information. (lemmy.world)
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They're probably the only things that "create" information in the sense that you can always grab another slice. Thank you delicious pi!

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Randomness is the opposite of information.

[–] uis@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

It is not. If I in July in Europe will say "there is no snow outside", I give you very little information. If in same conditions I will say "there is snow outside", I will give a lot of information.

Amount of information is proportional to (logarithm of) improbability of outcome.

[–] Deebster@infosec.pub 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's irrational, which just appears random (which is why I said pseudorandom).

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

You don't want your encryption keys to be predictable.