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When you read this and think about the world he was in — it’s even more remarkable. How did he come up with it?
by mehulashah 2y ago
When you read this and think about the world he was in — it’s even more remarkable. How did he come up with it?
- 082349872349872 2y agoFrom playing 20 Questions and attempting to formalise it? EDIT: actually the cryptography connection is more likely: Leibniz was XVII; who was it that was already using binary alternatives for steganography a few centuries earlier? EDIT2: did entropy in p-chem come before or after Shannon? EDIT3: well before; S = k_B ln Ω was 1877.
- duped 2y agoThis is apocryphal, but it probably had something to do with dropping shells on Nazis - he was developing fire control systems for the US Navy around the time he developed the theorem, and only published several years after the War. Allegedly he also derived Mason's Gain Formula around the same time but that was classified until Mason published it.