Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 2 Nov 2001 10:34:27 +0000 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] (0/4) Entropy accounting fixes |
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Hi!
> And your argument that there is zero randomness in the TSC _depends_ on > your ability to perfectly estimate what the TSC is. If you cannot do it, > there is obviously at least one bit of randomness there. So I don't think > your "zero" is a good conservative estimate.
Actually, no. If something is not predictable it does not mean >= 1 bit.
There is < half of bit of information in "this human is older than 100 years".
There's about 7.3 bits per word in english sentence. Etc, fractional bits exist. Pavel -- Philips Velo 1: 1"x4"x8", 300gram, 60, 12MB, 40bogomips, linux, mutt, details at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/velo/index.html.
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