SHANNON LIMIT 5)
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The theoretical limit for how much information a communication channel can carry.
Information is taken here in a strictly quantitative meaning.
It refers to the efficiency of a broadcast system in terms of the number of bits of information per second that it is possible to send, for ex. per herz in a radio bandwidth.
Categories
- 1) General information
- 2) Methodology or model
- 3) Epistemology, ontology and semantics
- 4) Human sciences
- 5) Discipline oriented
Publisher
Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science(2020).
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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science (2020). Title of the entry. In Charles François (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics (2). Retrieved from www.systemspedia.org/[full/url]
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