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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 03:53:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
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Subject: Re: Estimating entropy 
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On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> S = - \Int_x dx p(x) ln_2 p(x)

                       log_2(p(x))

Oops. log_2 is of course the base-2 logarithm.

Kris

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