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Re: Entropy of other languages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Travis H.)
Wed Feb 7 21:11:23 2007
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 19:19:55 -0600
From: "Travis H." <travis+ml-cryptography@subspacefield.org>
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On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 05:42:49AM -0800, Sandy Harris wrote:
> He starts from information theory and an assumption that
> there needs to be some constant upper bound on the
> receiver's per-symbol processing time. From there, with
> nothing else, he gets to a proof that the optimal frequency
> distribution of symbols is always some member of a
> parameterized set of curves.
Do you remember how he got from the "upper bound on processing time"
to anything other than a completely uniform distribution of symbols?
Seems to me a flat distribution has the minimal upper bound on
information content per symbol for a given amount of information!
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