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0 pointsCorrectHorseBat11mo ago0 comments

Information is ~log(possible states) according to Shannon.

Log(25)/log(4) is 2.3. Among other things this definition has the nice property that two disks/pages/drives/bits together contain the sum of the capacities instead of their product.

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baobun11mo ago

To expand if it helps intuition: As data data density grows, the largest representable number grows exponentially.

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baobun11mo ago

To expand if it helps intuition: As data data density grows, the largest representable number grows exponentially.

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