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Shannon formula

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Shannon formula [′shan·ən ‚fȯr·myə·lə]
(communications)
A theorem in information theory which states that the highest number of binary digits per second which can be transmitted with arbitrarily small frequency of error is equal to the product of the bandwidth and log2(1 +R), whereRis the signal-to-noise ratio.


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For instance, the classic Shannon formula is based on the observations at periodic times and the values of the cardinal series at these times.
Thus if those probabilities are defined through particle spatial position j out of M available positions, and color c out of C color species, we can write Shannon formula as shown in Eq.
 
 
 
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