OFFSET
0,1
COMMENTS
This is the halting probability of a certain Chaitin (self-delimiting Turing) machine U.
The full (infinite precision) number is noncomputable.
The machine used is NOT universal, since each data bit is given in ASCII and contributes 7 bits to the program length. - John Tromp, Mar 23 2009
LINKS
C. C. Calude, M. J. Dinneen and C.-K. Shu, Computing a glimpse of randomness, Exper. Math., 11 (2002), 361-370.
G. J. Chaitin, An Invitation to Algorithmic Information Theory, DMTCS'96 Proceedings.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Chaitin's Constant
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KEYWORD
AUTHOR
N. J. A. Sloane, Feb 15 2003
STATUS
approved