In a message dated 12/1/2008 10:26:13 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >I had never previously seen the term "Shannon", defined to mean 1 mole of bits (6.02 x 10^23 bits). Since the title of the linked article includes the word "Information", I would assume that "Shannon" refers to the late Claude Elwood Shannon, who did seminal research and published papers on Information Theory. _http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon)
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