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Bounds from a Card Trick

Information Theory 2010-11-23 v1 math.IT

Abstract

We describe a new variation of a mathematical card trick, whose analysis leads to new lower bounds for data compression and estimating the entropy of Markov sources.

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@article{arxiv.1011.4609,
  title  = {Bounds from a Card Trick},
  author = {Travis Gagie},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.4609},
  year   = {2010}
}

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Submitted to a journal on 23/03/10

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