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Letter: Letter

Published 27 June 1998

From Andrew Kepert, University of Newcastle

An irrelevant mathematical point: Max Tegmark’s method for generating all
numbers between 0 and 1 misses most of them. In particular, it misses all those
numbers with infinite decimal expansions that he sought to catch.

I don’t think that this invalidates his argument concerning information
content and complexity, but a better analogy should be chosen.

New South Wales

Issue no. 2140 published 27 June 1998

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