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min-entropy

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.25 in modern English

Syllables
min-en-tropy
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The smallest of the Rényi family of entropies, corresponding to the most conservative way of measuring the unpredictability of a set of outcomes, as the negative logarithm of the probability of the most likely outcome.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From minimum entropy.

Usage

Inflected Forms

min-entropies (plural)

Questions

What does min-entropy mean?
The smallest of the Rényi family of entropies, corresponding to the most conservative way of measuring the unpredictability of a set of outcomes, as the negative logarithm of the probability of the most likely outcome.
Where does min-entropy come from?
From minimum entropy.

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