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In 1951, Shannon published the paper "Prediction and Entropy of Printed English," estimating the entropy of English to be approximately 1.0–1.5 bits per character through experiments in which human subjects predicted the next character.
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马尔可夫链熵率详解：公式推导与序列建模应用
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