Compression of random binary data

Ian Kelly ian.g.kelly at gmail.com
Sat Oct 28 22:04:17 EDT 2017


On Oct 28, 2017 10:30 AM, "Stefan Ram" <ram at zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> Well, then one can ask about the entropy of a data source
> thatt only is emitting this message. (If it needs to be endless:
> thatt only is emitting this message repeatedly.)

If there is only one possible message then the entropy is zero.

-1.0 * log2(1.0) == 0



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