13-10-2023, 09:53 AM
(12-10-2023, 06:12 PM)bi3mw wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.In the VMS the lines very often end so nicely that one could assume that the last words of a line could be "filler words". If this is so, the last words thus only consist of "character salad",
I have no expertise in the matter, so this is more like a question to those better informed, but I many times wonder when I read about "nulls" and "fillers" and think how would those affect the information content of the MS. VMS has a quite rigid way of writing that restricts the number of events and thus the information conveyed, and certainty can only contain very limited information.
As to some extent, the Shannon entropy measures the average information you get from all the events, if we even remove from that group of potential events "nulls" and "fillers", how much information is really left to the reader?