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Computing A Glimpse of Randomness
A Chaitin Omega number is the halting probability of a universal Chaitin
(self-delimiting Turing) machine. Every Omega number is both computably
enumerable (the limit of a computable, increasing, converging sequence of
rationals) and random (its binary expansion is an algorithmic random sequence).
In particular, every Omega number is strongly non-computable. The aim of this
paper is to describe a procedure, which combines Java programming and
mathematical proofs, for computing the exact values of the first 64 bits of a
Chaitin Omega:
0000001000000100000110001000011010001111110010111011101000010000. Full
description of programs and proofs will be given elsewhere.Comment: 16 pages; Experimental Mathematics (accepted