Re: Shannon's paper, and H as a lower bound on average code length.



John schrieb:
Under certauincontraints he may have done, are you within the
constraints???

He shows for a given code that *that* code has H as a lower bound. But
what (from my understanding) he hasn't done is show that there is no
other code which can do better than H on average.

Your understanding is wrong.

So long,
Thomas
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