From: richard@biblewheel.com
Date: Mon Aug 04 2003 - 23:10:38 EDT
While we are at it, we might as well note this formula that will produce all
primes, interspersed with lots of 2s:
f(n) = 2 + 2n! mod (n+1)
Here's the reference:
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number
But with regards to this thread - neither sequence is random in an IT sense,
though primes are more algorythemically complex than fibonacci numbers. But
either could be used to determine design in a "Contact" type message since
there are no known natural radio sources that would produce either sequence.
And now we have an interesting contrast: In certain situations, we would see
algorythmic simplicity as a sign of "lack of design," e.g. the appearance of
Fibonacci numbers in plants, and in other situations we would see it as a
sign of design, as with the beaming of primes on radio signals. The
difference, of course, is that there are plenty of natural phenomena that
would produce the fibonacci sequence in plants, whereas there is no known
phenomenon that would produce the sequence of primes in radio signals. In
these cases we would distinguish between nature and design not on the basis
of the algorythmic complexity of the sequence, but on our knowledge of the
operation of natural laws.
Richard Amiel McGough
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http://www.BibleWheel.com
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