small experiment comparing entropy of files 11-9-13

2014-08-29

++ small experiment comparing entropy of files 11-9-13

I found a program that convert any file into binary here:
Binary Viewer
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Programming/Other-Programming-Files/PX-Binary-Viewer.shtml

I then created some text files with 10,000 random numbers, compressed these files into a zip, and obtained the binary string representing the zip file.  I also compressed my dissertation into a zip file and obtained the binary string representing the zip file.  I then calculated the entropy of these strings.

Files for random numbers
C:\Users\kurtw_000\Documents\kurt\storage\CIM Research Folder\DR\2013\11-9-13\random number files
-This folder contains 5 files of 10,000 random numbers
--"C:\Users\kurtw_000\Documents\kurt\storage\CIM Research Folder\DR\2013\11-9-13\random number files\random numbers"

Files for "dissertation for binary string entropy analysis"
"C:\Users\kurtw_000\Documents\kurt\storage\CIM Research Folder\DR\2013\11-9-13\dissertation for binary string entropy analysis"

The normalized entropy of my dissertation in binary was 0.999991057, and the entropy of 10,000 random numbers in binary was 0.999764949.  I think that in order to detect "order" in my dissertation I would have to represent in something other than binary.  Therefore, instead of calculating the number of 1s and 0s, I would count the number of english letters or something like that.

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See also
-Binary Entropy of Total Human Genome
--"C:\Users\kurtw_000\Documents\kurt\storage\CIM Research Folder\DR\2013\11-9-13\binary entropy of total human genome\Binary Entropy of Total Human Genome.xlsx"

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