Re: Compression, encoding, entropy

What did you use as "d" -- the number of bits in a digit? Usually
that's more than 1.

Best regards,
Arthur

At 11:58 AM -0400 5/3/04, David Mertz wrote:
>Begin forwarded message:
>
>>From: "David Mertz, Ph.D." <mertz@gnosis.cx>
>>Date: May 3, 2004 11:57:37 AM EDT
>>To: voting-project@lists.sonic.net
>>Subject: Re: [voting-project] Compression, encoding, entropy
>>
>>On May 3, 2004, at 4:57 AM, Arthur Keller wrote:
>>>I'm not a python programmer, so I can't. But the formula is:
>>
>>Arthur: Does this look right to you? If so, I'll post the source
>>code. But if not, I must have made a programming error in
>>implementing your formulas:
>>
>>$ ./election-entropy.py < demo-election.data
>>Election summary for OVC demo ballot (write-ins count as candidate)
>>
>>269995136716800 distinct votes are possible
>>Optimal encoding is approximately 48 bits
>>Contests at bit-boundaries, approx 53 bits
>>Contests self-delimited, approx 99 bits
>>
>>Vote Space Optimal Self-Delim
>>---------- ------- ----------
>> 9 4 6
>> 9 4 6
>> 4 2 4
>> 4 2 4
>> 5 3 5
>> 4 2 4
>> 5 3 5
>> 4 2 4
>> 3 2 3
>> 3 2 3
>> 3 2 3
>> 176 8 15
>> 109601 17 37
>>
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