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   Lawrence D'Oliveiro to Wolfgang Agnes   
   Re: the early teletype   
   18 Nov 24 22:34:31   
   
   XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 18 Nov 2024 08:55:40 -0300, Wolfgang Agnes wrote:   
      
   > Lawrence D'Oliveiro  writes:   
   >   
   >> On 18 Nov 2024 09:01:47 -0000, Scott Dorsey wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> It's dying out though because the modern digital modes have much   
   >>> better performance under marginal conditions.   
   >>   
   >> The more efficiently information is encoded, the more it resembles   
   >> random noise.   
   >   
   > Which theorem is that?   
      
   H(X) = -Σ p(x) log₂ p(x)   
      
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