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On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 01:05:22PM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> --- Robin:
> > Err, no.  "average information per symbol" is <I>/N.  I was just
> > giving you a search phrase.
> 
> Page 121: "We therefore find the expected information in a message,
> which we write <I>." I is the information, so "the expected value of
> I" is right for <I>.
> 
> Now, how to say that in lojban is a different matter.
> {lo pacna vamji be ibu}? 

It's in mekso, for one thing.

For another, expectation is to'e spaji (according to the definition of
spaji, it's nalspaji, but that's clearly wrong).

{li na'u tolspaji vamji i bu} is now translated by my parser in LaTeX
mode as { $ \langle i \rangle $ }.

Thanks.

Now I need to re-create the formula to test this new operator, unless
someone has a copy.  :-P

-Robin

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