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... grams . The n - gram probabilities take account of the difference between the redundancy calculated from the elementary letter probabilities by the basic formula for information and the redundancy experi- mentally determined by ...
... grams . The n - gram probabilities take account of the difference between the redundancy calculated from the elementary letter probabilities by the basic formula for information and the redundancy experi- mentally determined by ...
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... n - gram probabilities are unknown and in any case are nearly impossible to introduce in the calculation of information . By expressing their effect , this difference expresses the difference in intelligence of the [ page 56 ] authors ...
... n - gram probabilities are unknown and in any case are nearly impossible to introduce in the calculation of information . By expressing their effect , this difference expresses the difference in intelligence of the [ page 56 ] authors ...
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... n - gram probabilities which are so hard to get directly . 14. DIFFERENT MEANINGS OF THE WORD " CODE " We call the set of coding operations , which the receptor is sup- posed to know , the code of the message . We are now going to ...
... n - gram probabilities which are so hard to get directly . 14. DIFFERENT MEANINGS OF THE WORD " CODE " We call the set of coding operations , which the receptor is sup- posed to know , the code of the message . We are now going to ...
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