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:The entropy as currently defined in the task does not directly depend on the "size" of the string in memory, because it merely represents the probability table of a stochastic process. |
:The entropy as currently defined in the task does not directly depend on the "size" of the string in memory, because it merely represents the probability table of a stochastic process. |
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:--[[User:Grondilu|Grondilu]] ([[User talk:Grondilu|talk]]) 15:42, 17 April 2013 (UTC) |
:--[[User:Grondilu|Grondilu]] ([[User talk:Grondilu|talk]]) 15:42, 17 April 2013 (UTC) |
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:: What I mean when I say 299-300 bits is that if we knew I was going to pick 100 digits from random.org as described we wouldn't be able to design a scheme that would average fewer than 299 bits to tell you which one I picked, but we could design one which would do it in 300. This task takes a slightly different model (if I was going to generate a 100-character string with a given number of each digit) but the two are similar. Either way the string has about 300 and each character has about 3. |
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:: [[User:CRGreathouse|CRGreathouse]] ([[User talk:CRGreathouse|talk]]) 00:55, 18 April 2013 (UTC) |