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# The Online Algorithmic Complexity Calculator

#### v3.0

To know how to calculate your personal 'cognitive randomness'
ability (as shown in our widely covered article) read this.
For the new functionality on network analysis read:
An Algorithmic Information Calculus for Causal Discovery and Reprogramming Systems
and also, very important, the Numerical Limitations section

The Online Algorithmic Complexity Calculator (OACC) is a powerful tool that provides estimations of algorithmic complexity (a.k.a. Kolmogorov-Chaitin complexity) (or $K$) and Algorithmic Probability for short and long strings and for 2-dimensional arrays better than any other tool, and estimations of Bennett's Logical Depth (or $LD$) for strings, hitherto impossible to estimate with any other tool. These 3 measures constitute the most powerful and universal algorithmic measures of complexity.

To estimate the complexity of long strings and large adjacency matrices, the OACC uses a method called $BDM$ which is based upon Algorithmic Probability. The estimation of complexity by $BDM$ is compatible with --but beyond the scope of-- lossless compression algorithms, which are so widely used to estimate $K$. Implementations of lossless compression are, however, entirely based upon Shannon entropy ($S$) (e.g. LZ, LZW, DEFLATE, etc) and thus cannot capture any algorithmic content beyond simple statistical patterns (repetitions). In contrast to lossless compression, $BDM$ not only considers statistical regularities but is also sensitive to segments of an algorithmic nature (such as sequences like $12345...$ or $246810...$), which Shannon entropy and lossless compression algorithms would only be able to characterize as having maximum randomness and the highest degree of incompressibility. Moreover, unlike Kolmogorov-Chaitin complexity (thanks to the Invariance Theorem), both Entropy and Entropy-based compression algorithms are not invariant to language choice and are therefore not robust enough to measure complexity or randomness (technical arguments and an example are be found here).

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