Ch 7: Information Theory

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First, what do the following questions mean?  Then answer them.

 Is mathematics complete?  consistent?  decidable?

 

What is a Turing machine?  What is the significance of a Turing machine?

What did Shannon mean by wanting to define the measure of information as the measure of uncertainty?

Comment on "Paradoxical though it sounded, random messages carry more information." [p. 230]

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