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I think in this case simplicity does reveal the answer. I would put 30 because the sequence becomes a repeating sequences of 31, 30. Answering 28 requires making the assumption that the sequence of numbers represent days of the month, which has a higher information entropy making the sequence less simple.


29 would be more valid in a leap year - so calendar days is far from simple and unambiguous.


Could you develop on how to mesure the information entropy in an absolute way?



Given the incomputability of Kolmogorov complexity, this concept is not usable as an absolute mesure.




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