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Shannon did an experiment that found the entropy of English text is about 1.6 bits per character. This is probably a high estimate, since the kinds of sentences
by salmonellaeater 13y ago
Shannon did an experiment that found the entropy of English text is about 1.6 bits per character. This is probably a high estimate, since the kinds of sentences you might think up for a password probably have lower entropy than if you used a source of random bits to generate valid sentences.