[CentOS] Elliptic curve on Centos 6.x
Timothy Murphy
gayleard at alice.it
Sat Jan 4 00:25:38 UTC 2014
John R Pierce wrote:
> Entropy has a standard meaning in computer science, see
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_entropy for an introductory
> discussion with various references.
Shannon entropy only makes sense when applied to a random variable.
It cannot be applied to a single string, as in this case.
Algorithmic entropy (Kolmogorov complexity) can be applied
to a single string, but it cannot be measured directly.
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Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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