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Herbert Gangl

Thursday 4th February 2021

The fundamental equation of information theory and modular arithmetic.

A truncated version of the logarithm modulo a prime number, whence `modular
arithmetic', behaves surprisingly like the binary entropy function, a central tool
in Information Theory, which itself is a function on the real numbers, rather...
We discuss a relation between these two functions and indicate similar equations for higher analogues.

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