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		temac on Nov 4, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: My IQ Could you develop on how to mesure the information entropy in an absolute way?

ShardPhoenix on Nov 5, 2012 [–]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity

temac on Nov 11, 2012 | [–]

Given the incomputability of Kolmogorov complexity, this concept is not usable as an absolute mesure.

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