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   haiticare2011@gmail.com to Jeroen   
   Re: Simple lock-in design for Oz-type me   
   04 Feb 14 01:44:03   
   
   On Sunday, February 2, 2014 8:25:48 AM UTC-5, Jeroen wrote:   
   > On 2014-02-02 05:23, hiticare2011@gmail.com wrote:   
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   > >>>>          "BW*log_2(1+SNR) ?"   
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   > >>>> It's Shannon's Theorem.  Entirely disprovable, novel, interesting,   
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   > > What is that equal to? The channel capacity?   
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   > > And what is that algebra saying?   
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   > > The gods must be crazy   
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   > It says that the number of bits you can push through a channel   
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   > depends on its bandwidth and on the log base 2 of the number of   
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   > signal levels you can distinguish through the noise. Makes   
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   > sense, no?   
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   > Jeroen Belleman   
      
   So, what does that have to do with information? Shannon developed a theory of   
   "information entropy." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_entropy   
   How is that information?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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