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What Is Entropic Poetry
What Is Entropic Poetry
What Is Entropic Poetry
H=-Σ pi logpi
where pi is the probability of i. Putting all its results
in the field of electrical engineering aside, and using
the base-2 logarithm, this formula gives us a measure
of average information contained in a message, in bits.
The information contained by a message X is
understood as the amount of uncertainty that is
eliminated by observation of X. Shannon information is
appropriate for an unordered space like the space of
alphabetic letters.
Web References :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_theory
http://csml.som.ohio-
state.edu/Music829D/Notes/Infotheory.html
http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/Humanist/v05/018
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