As measures for the non-randomness of the RNG, two coherence variables, one representing first order non randomness and one representing 8-bit patterned forms of non randomness, were used.
This work is about "creating order where randomness is expected, defying natural probabilities," Mr. Van Aelst says.
This tension between order and randomness is one of the most tantalizing aspects of pi.
The sculpture, on the floor, speaks with sullen power of order and randomness and not much else.
"The tension between order and randomness is one of the most tantalizing aspects of pi," writes Strogatz.
The balance between order and randomness is driven by small differences in intermolecular interaction energies, which can be related by numerical simulations to the experimentally measured order parameter.
They can divine the secrets behind the frenzy of blips on the screen, finding the hidden order in randomness, and turning that into gold.
Like Pollock, an artist Hantaï admired, Mr. Cooper explained, the works were about the contradictions of order versus randomness; chance versus control.
D. J. Watts and S. H. Strogatz, "Collective Dynamics of 'Small World' Networks," Nature 393 (1998): 440-442; D. J. Watts, Small Worlds: The Dynamics of Networks Between Order and Randomness (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999).
Now a team of sociologists at Columbia University led by Duncan Watts, an assistant professor of sociology and author of "Small Worlds: The Dynamics of Networks Between Order and Randomness," is trying to assess the six-degrees hypothesis on a large scale, using e-mail as the medium for building the chains.
