Hartley

(′härt·lē)

(communications) A unit of information content, equal to the designation of 1 of 10 possible and equally likely values or states of anything used to store or convey information.

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informatics The unit of information corresponding to the storage of an arbitrary decimal digit, = log₂ 10 = 3.321 928~ bits. (One cannot have a fraction of a bit, but the unit is relevant to the accommodation of multiple digits.)

IN BRIEF: n. - English philosopher who introduced the theory of the association of ideas (1705-1757).

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