Comment by LgWoodenBadger
12 days ago
2 dots at 5 possibilities each gives 25 (5^2)
2 dots at 2 possibilities each gives 4 (2^2)
They only diverge from there. Or am I doing my math wrong?
12 days ago
2 dots at 5 possibilities each gives 25 (5^2)
2 dots at 2 possibilities each gives 4 (2^2)
They only diverge from there. Or am I doing my math wrong?
Information is ~log(possible states) according to Shannon.
Log(25)/log(4) is 2.3. Among other things this definition has the nice property that two disks/pages/drives/bits together contain the sum of the capacities instead of their product.
To expand if it helps intuition: As data data density grows, the largest representable number grows exponentially.