Information Contained in Letter of Alphabet/Further Analysis
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Theorem
It needs to be pointed out this analysis of the quantity of information in a letter of the English alphabet is appropriate only if each letter is equally likely to occur.
In practice this is unlikely to occur, and the concept of entropy, also known as uncertainty, is used instead.
Sources
- 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): information theory
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): information theory