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The entropy of Łukasiewicz-languages

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 October 2005

Ludwig Staiger
Ludwig Staiger*
Affiliation:
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Institut für Informatik, von-Seckendorff-  Platz 1, D–06099 Halle (Saale), Germany; staiger@informatik.uni-halle.de
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Abstract

The paper presents an elementary approach for the calculation of the entropy of a class of languages. This approach is based on the consideration of roots of a real polynomial and is also suitable for calculating the Bernoulli measure. The class of languages we consider here is a generalisation of the Łukasiewicz language.

Keywords

Entropy of languagesBernoulli measure of languagescodesŁukasiewicz language
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Research Article
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RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications , Volume 39 , Issue 4 , October 2005 , pp. 621 - 639
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© EDP Sciences, 2005

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