Shannon ’ s noiseless coding theorem
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In these notes we discuss Shannon’s noiseless coding theorem, which is one of the founding results of the field of information theory. Roughly speaking, we want to answer such questions as how much information is contained in some piece of data? One way to approach this question is to say that the data contains n bits of information (in average) if it can be coded by a binary sequence of length n (in average). So information theory is closely related to data compression.
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