[Sigia-l] RE: Data vs. Information

[Ed Housman]

Christopher:

Well some of the participants liked "bit"
but we finally agreed that what Shannon
was talking about was not "information"
but ways of minimizing bandwidth needed
to transmit a particular bit pattern.

That minimum is different based on
strangeness of the bit pattern.
The byte pattern
"psychological instability"
in a journal on botany, would
certainly stick out as strange.

But does that mean it contains more
information?

Forgive me, I am in a rambling mood
today.

--Ed



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