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The mathematical theory of information is based on probability theory and statistics, and measures information with several quantities of information. The choice of logarithmic base in the following formulae determines the unit of information entropy that is used.
The hartley (symbol Hart), also called a ban, or a dit (short for "decimal digit"), [1] [2] [3] is a logarithmic unit that measures information or entropy, based on base 10 logarithms and powers of 10. One hartley is the information content of an event if the probability of that event occurring is 1 ⁄ 10. [4]
Bosak is author of the book The Old Measure: An Inquiry into the Origins of the U.S. Customary System of Weights and Measures. (ISBN 978-0-615-37626-4, 2010) and the article "Canonical grain weights as a key to ancient systems of weights and measures" (PDF). (latest version 19 April 2014)
U.S. figure skater Jon Maravilla says he was denied entry on a Delta Airlines flight to Atlanta, not the American Airlines flight that collided with an Army helicopter in D.C. on Wednesday. This ...
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Jones was born on July 19, 1987, in Rochester, New York. [34] His father Arthur is a pastor at Mount Sinai Church of God in Christ in Binghamton, New York. [35] Arthur discouraged Jon's fighting career, "I wanted him to preach.
Nearly a decade after controversial reality show Gigolos went off the air, a new docuseries is set to cover the violent death of a woman at the hands of one of the show's former stars.. Gigolos ...
In 2001, the progressive media watchdog organization FAIR criticized Stossel's reportage of global warming in his documentary, Tampering with Nature, accusing it of using "highly selective...information" that placed undue emphasis on three dissenters from among the 2,000 members of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which had ...