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- Subject: [Discuss] vnc
- From: blu at nedharvey.com (Edward Ned Harvey (blu))
- Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 23:12:09 +0000
- In-reply-to: <20140828225853.GS14848@randomstring.org>
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> From: Dan Ritter [mailto:dsr at randomstring.org] > Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2014 6:59 PM > > Suppose we play the game, and I think of a phrase, and you say > "the magic word is squeamish ossifrage", and purely by chance, > that is what I was thinking of. Is the entropy zero? What was the probability of me, purely by chance, making that guess? The entropy measurement is not dependent on whether or not I actually succeed in guessing right - it's dependent on the probability that I would succeed in guessing right.
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