F.A.Q.

Assignment 2

  • Q: What is a Redundancy?
  • A: the definition for Redundancy is the number of bits (entropy) required to represent all possible words MINUS the number of bits (entropy) required to represent the only legal words

Assignment 1

  • Q: On question 3, to which common standards you mean?
  • A: Choose a general common standards, preferably standards that are not learned in the course. You can look here and here for more info.
  • Q: On question 8, it is not clear what we should do. Do we use the bank example or make up our own?
  • A: The question meant: inventing another example similar to the Bank example and represent it using the formal notation of table 10.2
  • Q: Speaking of which, I can't find this table 10.2
  • A: Table 10.2 is on p. 325 of Stallings.