Spetner and Shannon

Wesley R. Elsberry (welsberr@inia.cls.org)
Thu, 16 Sep 1999 10:22:30 -0500 (CDT)

Art Chadwick writes:

AC>Spetner uses the term in a very precise and useful way (that
AC>was his specialty in Physics, after all). There is nothing
AC>loose about his understanding or use of the term. He knows
AC>exactly what he is saying.

Shannon's specialty is information theory. His information
measure, negentropy, is as in the following equation:

H = - k * sum_i ( p_i * log_2( p_i ) )

Could Art please post Spetner's information measure equation
so that we can compare the two?

Wesley