They’re probably the only things that “create” information in the sense that you can always grab another slice. Thank you delicious pi!

  • uis@lemm.ee
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    29 days ago

    Is it actually information?

    Yes. For every bit of number pi you get one bit of information.

    I can give you the number two

    You gave me log2(10) bits of information. Thanks.

    but it’s not useful information until I also tell you which digit is significant and what the number means.

    You are misunderstanding what informatiob is.

    • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
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      29 days ago

      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.

      • uis@lemm.ee
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        29 days ago

        How you express something doesn’t change the amount of information is contained in the message.

        Welcome to the world of entropy coding.