Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics 187, 223-230 (2010)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2010-01287-x

Regular Article

Ticks of a Random clock

¹ Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ohio University, Athens, USA
² Institut für Physik Universität Augsburg, 86135 Augsburg, Germany

^a e-mail: peter.talkner@physik.uni-augsburg.de

Received: 3 August 2010
Revised: 9 August 2010
Published online: 1 October 2010

Abstract

A simple way to convert a purely random sequence of events into a signal with a strong periodic component is proposed. The signal consists of those instants of time at which the length of the random sequence exceeds an integer multiple of a given number. The larger this number the more pronounced the periodic behavior becomes.