information theory
A branch of applied mathematics and engineering involving the quantification of…A branch of applied mathematics and engineering involving the quantification of information sent over a communication channel, disregarding the meaning of the sent messages, exemplified by the noisy-channel coding theorem.
» Information theory about information entropy and physics talk about entropy are two different concepts that have the same name.
Meaning
1 senses(uncountable)A branch of applied mathematics and engineering involving the quantification of information sent over a communication channel, disregarding the meaning of the sent messages, exemplified by the noisy-channel coding theorem.
Informationstheorie
тео́рия информа́цииteórija informácii
- (computer science) a statistical theory dealing with the limits and efficiency of information processing
Examples
1 sentencesInformation theory about information entropy and physics talk about entropy are two different concepts that have the same name.
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