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shannon entropy

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.16 in modern English

Syllables
shan-non en-tropy
IPA
22
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

information entropy

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

Named after Claude Shannon, the "father of information theory".

Usage

Inflected Forms

Shannon entropies (plural)

Phrases

joint entropy conditional entropy Shannon information mutual information

Frequently Paired Words

joint entropy conditional entropy Shannon information mutual information

Questions

What does shannon entropy mean?
information entropy
Where does shannon entropy come from?
Named after Claude Shannon, the "father of information theory".

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