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Shannon's block-entropy approximations

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In A Mathematical Theory of Communication by Claude Shannon, Claude Shannon compares block uncertainty per symbol, denoted GN​, with conditional uncertainty given the preceding symbols, denoted FN​. Theorems 5 and 6 connect both decreasing approximations to the source's limiting uncertainty. He uses symbol statistics at increasing block lengths to expose structure missed by single-letter counts.[ref] The fair marginal bits of the binary Markov source provide a small exact example of that distinction.

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