At 12:28 PM 8/25/00 -0400, Marcel Popescu wrote:
>X-Loop: openpgp.net
>From: "David Honig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>> You could also use Shannon's formula directly to compute informational
>> quantity.  This might work better for short strings.
>
>Can you give me more info on that one?

I think John Walker has a fragment of code, entropy.c, which
just does the summation of frequencies * log2(freq) as per
Shannon ca. 1948 on Info Theory...  IIRC.. search for it.










  





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