The science news headlines are buzzing today with the results of a new study by astronomers from the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS).
An instrument called HARPS (short for High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher) is also a top contender, having already spotted a number of potentially habitable worlds.
An information theorist would answer thus: if each letter is equally likely to occur, the uncertainty is complete and a searcher does not know which of the letters to expect.
The searcher raises initial capital from investors to fund his search (average length: 18 months) and then returns to those investors seeking additional capital for an acquisition once he finds a suitable target.