RE: VMs: truncated repeating sequences

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Subject: RE: VMs: truncated repeating sequences
From: "Marke Fincher" <markefincher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 10:05:06 +0100
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Title: RE: VMs: truncated repeating sequences

> I'm not sure, but couldn't this kind of effect result from text generated by some kind of

> Markov process? Where after writing each character (or character pair, or whatever)

> you then have a limited choice of permitted following characters.

I have wondered about this sort of thing before, but even with a very limited

choice at each point (say only 2), the chances of repeating chains of these

lengths would still be way too small....

Marke

References:
- RE: VMs: truncated repeating sequences
  - From: Jon Grove