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From: John Conover <john@email.johncon.com>
Subject: =.save
Date: Sun, 16 May 93 14:57:22 PDT

Consider an electronic system.

Let B = The number of registers in the system.

Let S = The number of states in the system.

Let I = The infomation in the system, (ie., Hartley Information.)

Then from Information Theory [1][2]:

B = ln (S) / ln (2) = I.

Or alternately:

S = e^(B * ln (2)).

1 Hartley, R. V. L. [1928], "Transmission of Information," The Bell
Systems Technical J., 7, pp. 535-563.

2 Klir, George J., Folger, Tina A., "Fuzzy Sets, Uncertainty, and
Information," Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey 07632, ISBN
0-13-345984-5 025, pp. 148-149.

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John Conover, john@email.johncon.com, http://www.johncon.com/