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What if you are typing not an English text, but a series of random letters? This gets you to 5-6 bits per letter.
by codedokode 2y ago
What if you are typing not an English text, but a series of random letters? This gets you to 5-6 bits per letter.
- wat10000 2y agoI think this gets into what you consider to be “information.” Random noise is high entropy and thus high information in one sense, and zero information in another.
- freehorse 2y agoWell the information used in the article is the classical shannon's information, so the former. Though I suspect that the entropy of what we can actually "randomly" type is not that high.