Channel capacity of a telegraph

The Endeavour 2024-10-19

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Claude Shannon’s famous paper A Mathematical Theory of Communication [1] includes an example saying that the channel capacity of a telegraph is log2 W where W is the largest real root of the determinant equation Where in the world did that come from? I’ll sketch where the equation above came from, but first let’s find […]

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10/19/2024, 19:33

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10/19/2024, 18:59