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	Podcast:		Breaking Math Podcast
	Episode:		3: TMI (Information Theory)
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		00:47:44
	Publish Date:		2017-02-07 14:27:27
	Description:		“ABABABABABABABAB”. How much information was that? You may say “sixteen letters worth”, but is that the true answer? You could describe what you just read as “AB 8 times”, and save a bunch of characters, and yet have the same information. But what is information in the context of mathematics? The answer is nothing short of miraculous; information theory has applications in telephony, human language, and even physics. So what is information theory, and what can we learn from it? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/breakingmathpodcast/support
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