The strong weak truth table (sw) reducibility was suggested
by Downey, Hirschfeldt, and LaForte as a measure of relative randomness,
alternative to the Solovay reducibility. It also occurs naturally in
proofs in classical computability theory as well as in the recent work
of Soare, Nabutovsky and Weinberger on applications of computability
to di?erential geometry. We study the sw-degrees of c.e. reals and con-
struct a c.e. real which has no random c.e. real (i.e. Chaitin's Omega number) sw-above
it.
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