At 6:46 PM 9/22/95, David Van Wie wrote:

Having overcome my initial skepticism on the entire topic of entropy, based on the useful pointers to the literature I have received, I agree wholeheartedly with the need for _positive_ design criteria against which designs may be evaluated. For initial consideration, I recommend the following:

The entropy E is defined by the sum across n states of -P_i log_2(P_i),

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