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Von Neumann Extractor - Which bit is retained?


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Which bit is retained in the Von Neumann debiasing algorithm? 00 and 11 are discarded and 10, 01 are retained but is the first or the second bit retained or does it matter?



In other words:



first: 10 -> 1 , 01 -> 0



second: 10 -> 0 , 01 -> 1



Original Paper (appears to be first but could be interpreted either way):



https://dornsifecms.usc.edu/assets/sites/520/docs/VonNeumann-ams12p36-38.pdf



Examples (first digit accept):



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_random_number_generator#Software_whitening



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomness_extractor



http://pit-claudel.fr/clement/blog/generating-uniformly-random-data-from-skewed-input-biased-coins-loaded-dice-skew-correction-and-the-von-neumann-extractor/#more-410



https://people.seas.harvard.edu/~salil/pseudorandomness/extractors.pdf



Examples (second digit accept):



https://www.researchgate.net/publication/38359648_Iterating_Von_Neumann's_Procedure_for_Extracting_Random_Bits



https://www.esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/publications/article-2628.pdf



Examples of the second are present in papers regarding an Iterated Von Neumann algorithm.










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    Does it matter? Hint: Write down the assumptions, and compute from the assumptions the probability distributions of the outcomes of both alternatives.
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Which bit is retained in the Von Neumann debiasing algorithm? 00 and 11 are discarded and 10, 01 are retained but is the first or the second bit retained or does it matter?



In other words:



first: 10 -> 1 , 01 -> 0



second: 10 -> 0 , 01 -> 1



Original Paper (appears to be first but could be interpreted either way):



https://dornsifecms.usc.edu/assets/sites/520/docs/VonNeumann-ams12p36-38.pdf



Examples (first digit accept):



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_random_number_generator#Software_whitening



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomness_extractor



http://pit-claudel.fr/clement/blog/generating-uniformly-random-data-from-skewed-input-biased-coins-loaded-dice-skew-correction-and-the-von-neumann-extractor/#more-410



https://people.seas.harvard.edu/~salil/pseudorandomness/extractors.pdf



Examples (second digit accept):



https://www.researchgate.net/publication/38359648_Iterating_Von_Neumann's_Procedure_for_Extracting_Random_Bits



https://www.esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/publications/article-2628.pdf



Examples of the second are present in papers regarding an Iterated Von Neumann algorithm.










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    Does it matter? Hint: Write down the assumptions, and compute from the assumptions the probability distributions of the outcomes of both alternatives.
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    – Squeamish Ossifrage
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Which bit is retained in the Von Neumann debiasing algorithm? 00 and 11 are discarded and 10, 01 are retained but is the first or the second bit retained or does it matter?



In other words:



first: 10 -> 1 , 01 -> 0



second: 10 -> 0 , 01 -> 1



Original Paper (appears to be first but could be interpreted either way):



https://dornsifecms.usc.edu/assets/sites/520/docs/VonNeumann-ams12p36-38.pdf



Examples (first digit accept):



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_random_number_generator#Software_whitening



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomness_extractor



http://pit-claudel.fr/clement/blog/generating-uniformly-random-data-from-skewed-input-biased-coins-loaded-dice-skew-correction-and-the-von-neumann-extractor/#more-410



https://people.seas.harvard.edu/~salil/pseudorandomness/extractors.pdf



Examples (second digit accept):



https://www.researchgate.net/publication/38359648_Iterating_Von_Neumann's_Procedure_for_Extracting_Random_Bits



https://www.esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/publications/article-2628.pdf



Examples of the second are present in papers regarding an Iterated Von Neumann algorithm.










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Which bit is retained in the Von Neumann debiasing algorithm? 00 and 11 are discarded and 10, 01 are retained but is the first or the second bit retained or does it matter?



In other words:



first: 10 -> 1 , 01 -> 0



second: 10 -> 0 , 01 -> 1



Original Paper (appears to be first but could be interpreted either way):



https://dornsifecms.usc.edu/assets/sites/520/docs/VonNeumann-ams12p36-38.pdf



Examples (first digit accept):



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_random_number_generator#Software_whitening



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomness_extractor



http://pit-claudel.fr/clement/blog/generating-uniformly-random-data-from-skewed-input-biased-coins-loaded-dice-skew-correction-and-the-von-neumann-extractor/#more-410



https://people.seas.harvard.edu/~salil/pseudorandomness/extractors.pdf



Examples (second digit accept):



https://www.researchgate.net/publication/38359648_Iterating_Von_Neumann's_Procedure_for_Extracting_Random_Bits



https://www.esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/publications/article-2628.pdf



Examples of the second are present in papers regarding an Iterated Von Neumann algorithm.







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    Does it matter? Hint: Write down the assumptions, and compute from the assumptions the probability distributions of the outcomes of both alternatives.
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    Does it matter? Hint: Write down the assumptions, and compute from the assumptions the probability distributions of the outcomes of both alternatives.
    $endgroup$
    – Squeamish Ossifrage
    2 hours ago










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$begingroup$
Does it matter? Hint: Write down the assumptions, and compute from the assumptions the probability distributions of the outcomes of both alternatives.
$endgroup$
– Squeamish Ossifrage
2 hours ago






$begingroup$
Does it matter? Hint: Write down the assumptions, and compute from the assumptions the probability distributions of the outcomes of both alternatives.
$endgroup$
– Squeamish Ossifrage
2 hours ago












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It doesn't matter at all, since both $01$ and $10$ have the same probability $p(1-p).$






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    Furthermore, using the second bit instead of the first (or vice versa) just has the effect of inverting the output. And a uniformly random bitstream is still uniform even if inverted.
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