Re: Elliptic curve on Centos 6.x

[Timothy Murphy <gayleard@xxxxxxxx>]

John R Pierce wrote:

> Entropy has a standard meaning in computer science, see
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_entropy for an introductory
> discussion with various references.

Shannon entropy only makes sense when applied to a random variable.
It cannot be applied to a single string, as in this case.

Algorithmic entropy (Kolmogorov complexity) can be applied 
to a single string, but it cannot be measured directly.



-- 
Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland


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