Category talk:Randomness

Is it really necessary to have both this category ("Randomness", first edited on Jan. 8, 2005) and Category:Random numbers (June 2, 2004)? Conceptually, they certainly have a lot in common, which would seem to guarantee endless categorization problems going forward. Even now, "Randomness" is a subcategory of Category:Probability and statistics and "Random numbers" is a subcategory of Category:Cryptography, Category:Probability and statistics, and Category:Randomness, and both categories contain the articles Randomness and Random number. Ugh. I would prefer to just have this category and have it contain all the stuff relevant to both concepts. - dcljr 06:02, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)


 * It is not clear to me what this category is for and in what way it differs from the Probability and Statistics category. On the other hand, the Random Numbers category serves a clear purpose: it contains articles on the generation of (pseudo)random numbers. Thus, my first reaction is to delete this category. -- Jitse Niesen 12:39, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)


 * I decided to move all of Cateogy:Random numbers to this category instead, as randomness is not just about random number generation. A subcategory for random number generation could be created, though. But now at least we don't have concurrent overlapping categories, it's more a question of subcategories. Flammifer 13:37, 20 September 2005 (UTC)


 * I went ahead and boldly added this category to the Category:Cryptography since randomness is a very important concept in cryptography in many ways. --David Göthberg 03:06, 28 July 2006 (UTC)