Re: equal variance distributions, entropy

[Robert J. MacG. Dawson]

I was also oversimplifying in saying that the entropy of the uniform
distribution off its support is "minus infinity"; there are two
infinities involved  that cancel. But the principle - that perfect
knowledge, even of something's absence from a region, is infinitely
expensive - holds.
        -RD
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