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A mathematical quantity designed to measure the amount of randomness of a random variable.
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What is the significance of the log base being 2 in entropy?
But if you wanted to go deeper, have a look at Information Theory - Rationale Behind Using Logarithm for Entropy, and Other Explanations. …
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What is the role of the logarithm in Shannon's entropy?
This is just verbiage for the Entropy equation:
$$\begin{align}
H = & \sum_i{p_i.i} \\[6pt]
= & - \sum_i{p_i \log_2({p_i}})
\end{align}$$
The above has been explained in more detail here. …
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