They’re probably the only things that “create” information in the sense that you can always grab another slice. Thank you delicious pi!
They’re probably the only things that “create” information in the sense that you can always grab another slice. Thank you delicious pi!
Yes. For every bit of number pi you get one bit of information.
You gave me log2(10) bits of information. Thanks.
You are misunderstanding what informatiob is.
I can give you √2 which is 16-bits of information as characters. It’s also an irrational number. How you express something doesn’t change the amount of information is contained in the message.
Welcome to the world of entropy coding.
How you express something absolutely does change the amount of information in the message. That’s the foundation of compression.
Bitmap image files tend to be larger than png files, even when they both represent the same image.
1.41421… can be thought of as an expanded form of sqrt(2). In this case, the expansion is to an infinite number of digits.