RE: VMs: Declaration of WAR against EVA

["Don Latham" <djl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

true in physics, too, Nick.   But there is serendipty :-)
Don

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Subject: RE: VMs: Declaration of WAR against EVA


Hi Don,

At 23:26 04/03/03 -0700, Don Latham wrote:
>oh bother. I'll have to look into this further.

To work out the entropy (or the statistical properties in general) of a
text (or a line, or a page), you need first to know what are atomic units
of the stream of data.

However, canny code-makers knew by 1440 that if you could misdirect the eye
away from seeing the stream in terms of its actual atomic units, most
statistics-centric code-breaking methodologies - which we're still applying
today, though computer-assisted - simply wouldn't even begin to work.

Basically, remember that no matter how accurate (or automated) your
measurements, if you're measuring the wrong thing, you probably won't get
very far. :-o

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....

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