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Definition (undergraduate level)
The information content of a string of data is inversely related to the probability of receiving that data by chance. So a very highly organised, unusual string has high information content, but a very disordered one has low information content. This is quite like the idea of entropy in thermodynamics.
Relations
- broader:
- (en) Attribute taking continuous values
- narrower:
- (en) Gibbs inequality
- (en) Kraft inequality
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