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Can you explain how you got 6.6 bits?
by jcheng 6y ago
Can you explain how you got 6.6 bits?
- aDfbrtVt 6y agoBecause it uniquely describes a user within a group of 100 other people. 2^(-6.6) ~ 1/100
- user2342234 6y agoFrom Shannon's formula for information content[1]. The Idea is that the less likely an event is the more information it imparts. I = -log2(p) In this case they used p = 1/100 1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_content https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_content
- marksomnian 6y agolog2(1/100)