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3 bits of info is a single digit. 20 bits is about 6 digits, or 2 English words. Of course needing to encode arbitrary information makes it harder than this but
by Asraelite 2y ago
3 bits of info is a single digit. 20 bits is about 6 digits, or 2 English words. Of course needing to encode arbitrary information makes it harder than this but it still seems quite low. Are you counting bits in some other way?
- Cpoll 2y agoThis is kind of silly, because waiters don't remember orders in bits, but... If the menu has 32 items, an order of one item fits into 5 bits, without any compression. In reality, if the steak is popular, you can save more bits with Huffman coding.
- Asraelite 2y agoExactly. OP is implying that even a single item is too much for them to remember and they would need a notepad, so I must be misinterpreting what they mean by "bit".
- addsasss 2y agobit as in a piece of information, just a bit of data