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Let $Z$ indicate whether the outcome differs from $x_1$. Then $\mathbb{P}(Z=1)=q$. The chain rule for information entropy givessince $X=x_1$ is determined when $Z=0$. The remaining conditional distribution has at most $m-1$ outcomes, so the maximum entropy on a finite alphabet is ${\log }_2(m-1)$. Therefore the Shannon source coding theorem limit obeysHere $h_2$ is the binary entropy function; equality holds when the rare outcomes are equiprobable. A convenient explicit small-$q$ bound isbecause $-(1-q){\log }_2(1-q)\le q{\log }_{2}e$. For a fixed alphabet, this upper bound tends to zero as $q\to 0$.