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Recently there has been exciting progress in our understanding of algorithmic randomness for reals, its calibration, and its connection with classical measures of complexity such as degrees of unsolvability.
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Downey, R. (2004). Some Recent Progress in Algorithmic Randomness. In: Fiala, J., Koubek, V., Kratochvíl, J. (eds) Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science 2004. MFCS 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3153. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-28629-5_3
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