Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Frederick Williams Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design,sci.crypt,comp.dsp,sci.math,sci.physics Subject: Re: information theory? Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2011 11:53:36 +0000 Organization: albasani.net Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4EB523C0.6F4D29C@btinternet.com> References: <4eaf7bf5.547777542@www.eternal-september.org> <5b93b1ba-5a4b-48eb-ba30-1ff212fd7839@f36g2000vbm.googlegroups.com> <9cd896f5-11aa-4600-82c6-a1cb0966f956@j36g2000prh.googlegroups.com> <63a0ac9a-8c42-46e2-8c33-ad4e9f75d0db@m5g2000prg.googlegroups.com> <4EB44DE5.A531D433@btinternet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.albasani.net QyJr8aL6r/oeeRIH3gg336LsSTlhCbIBczPl3hZIRDegCF4FxrzhMoi+qW1hOVmQfAfH35Kz64k/Za188TR03w== NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2011 11:53:32 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="oQEBonQQk4qJrZimzekhO2wFHKkvDMB0uhQBQadaDX8kFR7S0ngYcUsO06wRlBriZg3Hwy++Ao8vaT0ozEPpRIzFjMV4O4jQW2aU1QagMPhI6GpqwYCtOIYb4LqCKrih"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.8 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en Cancel-Lock: sha1:A9M7DADupWe28fOkyQ1iPe+zl7A= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.dsp:6723 Jerry Avins wrote: > > On 11/4/2011 5:59 PM, krw@att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz wrote: > > On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 20:41:09 +0000, Frederick Williams > > wrote: > > > >> Richard Outerbridge wrote: > >> > >>> The seminal introductory work for me was the Undergraduate text > >>> "Coding and Information Theory", by the late Richard W. Hamming, > >>> 1980, ISBN 0-13-139139-9 (perhaps one of the 1st books to have > >>> an ISBN number > >> > >> Hardly, they date from 1970. Also, it's "ISBN" not "ISBN number". > > > > Tight-assed pedants hate "ATM machines", too, right? > > And DC current. And, for a different reason, DC voltage. -- When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Jonathan Swift: Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting