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From: muttiah@stable.ecn.purdue.edu (Ranjan S Muttiah)
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Subject: Change in information content (if any ?)
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Date: 16 Mar 91 04:24:59 GMT
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I'm don't know too much about information theory.  So, please bear
with me if this question is vague.

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Is there any change in information in reformulating the representation
for data input (to a receiver, for example) ?

Ex.,

The sequence: 145 8 40 44
    vs
The sequence: 10010001 00001000 00101000 00101100

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My off the cuff answer is no.  However, if error were to be introduced by
the channel entropy seems higher with the second representation.