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information entropy

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.28 in modern English

Syllables
in-for-ma-tion en-tropy
IPA
28
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A measure of the uncertainty associated with a random variable; a measure of the average information content one is missing when one does not know the value of the random variable (usually in units such as bits); the amount of information (measured in, say, bits) contained per average instance of a character in a stream of characters.

Uncountable

Usage

Frequently Paired Words

variety

Synonyms

Shannon entropy

Questions

What does information entropy mean?
A measure of the uncertainty associated with a random variable; a measure of the average information content one is missing when one does not know the value of the random variable (usually in units such as bits); the amount of information (measured in, say, bits) contained per average instance of a character in a stream of characters.

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