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For ciphertext alphabet
Σ
and source entropy
H
, each symbol has redundancy
lo
g
∣Σ∣
−
H
, leading in Shannon's ideal model to
U
=
lo
g
∣
K
∣/
(
lo
g
∣Σ∣
−
H
)
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