ITERATING VONNEUMANN PROCEDURE FOR EXTRACTING RANDOM BITS

被引:127
作者
PERES, Y [1 ]
机构
[1] HEBREW UNIV JERUSALEM,JERUSALEM,ISRAEL
关键词
RANDOM BITS; ENTROPY; FUNCTIONAL EQUATION; EXCHANGEABILITY;
D O I
10.1214/aos/1176348543
中图分类号
O21 [概率论与数理统计]; C8 [统计学];
学科分类号
020208 ; 070103 ; 0714 ;
摘要
Given a sequence of independent, identically distributed random biased bits, von Neumann's simple procedure extracts independent unbiased bits. In this note we show that the number of unbiased bits produced by iterating this procedure is arbitrarily close to the entropy bound.
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页码:590 / 597
页数:8
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