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jcheng
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Can you explain how you got 6.6 bits?
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user2342234
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From Shannon's formula for information content[1]. The Idea is that the less likely an event is the more information it imparts.
I = -log2(p)
In this case they used p = 1/100
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_content
aDfbrtVt
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Because it uniquely describes a user within a group of 100 other people. 2^(-6.6) ~ 1/100
marksomnian
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log2(1/100)
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