New method to measure the redundancy of information
Understanding information as well as its redundancy, or duplication, has been crucial in the development of many of our everyday items such mobile phones, the internet, the compact disc as well as ensuring the success of many space missions. Using information geometry tools, researchers at the University of Hertfordshire, led by Dr Daniel Polani have developed a new mathematically precise method of measuring information redundancy, as published in Physical Review E.Most of us are familiar with the notion of “redundancy”, where there is a duplication of concepts – sometimes the duplication