"min-entropy" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: min-entropies [plural]
Etymology: From minimum entropy. Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} min-entropy (countable and uncountable, plural min-entropies)
  1. (information theory) The smallest of the Rényi family of entropies, corresponding to the most conservative way of measuring the unpredictability of a set of outcomes, as the negative logarithm of the probability of the most likely outcome. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Information theory

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