Proper noun
the Hartley function
(mathematics) A measure of uncertainty. If a sample from a finite set A uniformly at random is picked, the information revealed after the outcome is known is given by the Hartley function
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{\displaystyle H_{0}(A):=\mathrm {log} _{b}\vert A\vert }
, where
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{\displaystyle \vert A\vert }
denotes the cardinality of A.