Comment on What does randomness look like?parentComments−Dylan1680713yI can give you one simple argument. Ten items shuffled have 10! entropy, while ten independent rolls have 10^10 entropy. How is that not far less random?−baddox13yBecause amount of entropy has nothing to do with "amount of randomness."−mistercow13yI'm pretty sure that entropy is pretty much the only sane definition you could give of "amount of randomness".−Dylan1680713y> entropy is a measure of the uncertainty in a random variable
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I can give you one simple argument. Ten items shuffled have 10! entropy, while ten independent rolls have 10^10 entropy. How is that not far less random?
Because amount of entropy has nothing to do with "amount of randomness."
I'm pretty sure that entropy is pretty much the only sane definition you could give of "amount of randomness".
> entropy is a measure of the uncertainty in a random variable