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We begin with an elementary analysis of maps from a finite set into the free semigroup generated by another finite set and develop a terminology appropriate to information theory.
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Parthasarathy, K.R. (2013). Entropy of Elementary Information Sources. In: Coding Theorems of Classical and Quantum Information Theory. Texts and Readings in Mathematics, vol 45. Hindustan Book Agency, Gurgaon. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-93-86279-59-0_1
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