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Shannon

Edited by So8res, et al. last updated 4th Jul 2016

The shannon (Sh) is a unit of information. One shannon is the difference in entropy between a probability_distribution on a binary_variable that assigns 50% to each value, and one that assigns 100% to one of the two values.

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