Hartley function

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Etymology

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Introduced by Ralph Hartley in 1928.

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the Hartley function

  1. (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 , where denotes the cardinality of A.