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... measure , and science is not fundamentally concerned with quantities . In view of what one is usually told , this may seem a perverse and paradoxical statement . It is true that many scien- tists spend much of their time in measuring ...
... measure , and science is not fundamentally concerned with quantities . In view of what one is usually told , this may seem a perverse and paradoxical statement . It is true that many scien- tists spend much of their time in measuring ...
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... measurements . What was it the year before last , and the year before that and so on ? We want a population of death rates , from which we can work out a measure of variation , and then we can see whether this particular measurement ...
... measurements . What was it the year before last , and the year before that and so on ? We want a population of death rates , from which we can work out a measure of variation , and then we can see whether this particular measurement ...
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... measuring the amount of ' information ' contained in the originated message , and comparing it with the amount of identical infor- mation in the message at its destination . But , how to measure ' amount of information ' ? Let us , to ...
... measuring the amount of ' information ' contained in the originated message , and comparing it with the amount of identical infor- mation in the message at its destination . But , how to measure ' amount of information ' ? Let us , to ...
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