: Fis [mailto:fis-boun...@listas.unizar.es] On Behalf Of Mark Johnson
Sent: dimanche, 3 juin 2018 22:07
To: Krassimir Markov
Cc: Foundation of Information Science; Sungchul Ji
Subject: Re: [Fis] No, this is not the reason.
Dear Krassimir and Sungchul,
I suppose this bears out Von Neumann's tongu
Dear Krassimir and Sungchul,
I suppose this bears out Von Neumann's tongue-in-cheek advice to
Shannon! (http://www.eoht.info/page/Neumann-Shannon+anecdote)
Krassimir, just to ask about Boltzmann's use of the logs... I first
understood this to be a measure of the probability distribution of a
whol
Dear Sung,
You wrote:
> I think the main reason that we express 'information' as a logarithmic
function of the number of choices available, n, may be because the human
brain finds it easier to remember (and communicate and reason with) 10
than 100, or 100 than 10. . . . 0, e