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Suppose you know a coin lands heads up ½ the time and tails up ½ the time. The expected amount of information you get from a coin flip is -½ log(½) - ½ log(½) Taking the log base 2 gives you the Shannon entropy in bits. What do you get? (2/n) ([source](
https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/1546867039209279490))
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