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Covers encoding and binary digits, entropy, language and meaning, efficient encoding and the noisy channel, and explores ways in which information theory relates to physics, cybernetics, psychology, and art. "Uncommonly good...the most satisfying discussion to be found." -- Scientific American. 1980 edition.Pierce, John R. is the author of 'Introduction to Information Theory Symbols, Signals and Noise', published 1980 under ISBN 9780486240619 and ISBN 0486240614.
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