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Musings/Träumereien/Devaneios
Musings/Träumereien/Devaneios rated it 6 years ago
(Original Review, 1980-12-05)Final answer to question, "How many joules to send a bit?"The unit of information is determined by the choice of the arbitrary scale factor K in Shannon's entropy formula:{ s(Q|X) = -K SUM(p*ln(p)) }If K is made equal to 1/ln(2), then S is said to be measured in "bits" o...
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