Coding and Redundancy : : Man-Made and Animal-Evolved Signals / / Jack P. Hailman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
• VerfasserIn: Hailman, Jack P.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)

This book explores the strikingly similar ways in which information is encoded in nonverbal man-made signals (e.g., traffic lights and tornado sirens) and animal-evolved signals (e.g., color patterns and vocalizations). The book also considers some coding principles for reducing certain unwanted red...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Tables and Figures
• Preface
• 1 Introduction
• I Coding
• Introduction
• 2 Binary Coding
• 3 Multi-valued Coding
• 4 Multivariate Coding
• II Redundancy
• Introduction
• 5 Intrinsic Redundancy
• 6 Redundancy Reduction
• 7 Designed Redundancy
• Appendix A: List of Equations
• Appendix B: How to Find Base-2 Logarithms on a Pocket Calculator
• Appendix C: Binary Pervasiveness
• Notes
• References
• Index