Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hartley function

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.38 in modern English

Syllables: hart-ley -func-tion
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

4

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A measure of uncertainty. If a sample from a finite set A uniformly at random is picked, the information revealed after the outcome is known is given by the Hartley function H_0(A):=log_b|A|, where |A| denotes the cardinality of A.

Etymology

Introduced by Ralph Hartley in 1928.

Inflected Forms

the Hartley function (canonical)

Questions

What does hartley function mean?: A measure of uncertainty. If a sample from a finite set A uniformly at random is picked, the information revealed after the outcome is known is given by the Hartley function H_0(A):=log_b|A|, where |A| denotes the cardinality of A.
Where does hartley function come from?: Introduced by Ralph Hartley in 1928.

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