• @General_Effort@lemmy.world
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    23 months ago

    Wrong. They are called the same because they are fundamentally the same. That’s how you measure information.

    In some contexts, one wants to make a difference between the theoretical information content and what is actually stored on a technical device. But that’s a fairly subtle thing.

    • Aatube
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      33 months ago

      I don’t see how that can be a subtle difference. How is a bit of external storage data only subtly different from information content that tells the probability of the event occurring is ½?

      • @General_Effort@lemmy.world
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        03 months ago

        It’s a bit like asking what is the difference between the letter “A” and ink on a page in the shape of the letter “A”. Of course, first one would have to explain how they are usually not different at all.

        BTW, I don’t know what you mean by “external storage data”. The expression doesn’t make sense.