paradoxes of randomness-errata

[Justin]

Sarad AV (2003-08-16 11:26Z) wrote:

> >it comes to such a question-
> 
> >I do a fair coin throwing experiment with 64 coins.
> 
> >To represent 64 coins,i need 5  bits of information.
> 
> To represnet 64 coins,i need 6 bits of infomation :)

To deal with 65 possibilites, you need 7 bits (well, 6.022)...

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