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What's the Entropy of a Random Integer?

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What's the Entropy of a Random Integer?

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RSS BotMB to Hacker NewsEnglish · 17 days ago
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What’s the entropy of a random integer?
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Surely people have thought about this but I couldn’t find anything on a short search. The question: let n be a random integer, say in [N,2N]. It factors as the product of p_i^a_i. So you can …

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