AM 380A
- Offered
- Fall, Spring
- Credit
- 0.5
- Last listed
- 1990–91
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1984–85 to 1990–91; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
Variable length coding. The Shannon entropy as measure of uncertainty and expected information. Minimal average length coding; the Shannon entropy as lower bound. Source entropy. Channels. Transinformation. Capacity. Applications to problem solving, information transmission, logics, science, linguistics and communications (TV, music, etc.). Determination of practical measures of information. Prereq: Consent of instructor Cross-listed as PMATH 380A
As printed in the 1984–85 to 1990–91 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original.
Check it elsewhere
In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1984–85 to 1990–91, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1984–85 to 1990–91 7 calendars
Variable length coding. The Shannon entropy as measure of uncertainty and expected information. Minimal average length coding; the Shannon entropy as lower bound. Source entropy. Channels. Transinformation. Capacity. Applications to problem solving, information transmission, logics, science, linguistics and communications (TV, music, etc.). Determination of practical measures of information. Prereq: Consent of instructor Cross-listed as PMATH 380A
Offered Fall, Spring · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit