On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 6:50 AM, Royce Williams <royce@tycho.org> wrote:
> > I'm fairly certain changing the base is irrelevant. Entropy doesn't
> change
> > with a base change; the number of possible states (i.e., base) is not a
> > measurement of the entropy in a given string.
>
> ... unless a pattern is revealed by changing base (in other words, if
> the original data set wasn't actually random).
An optimizing compression algorithm, for instance, checks for such patterns?
jermudgeon
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