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Just learning and thinking about the concepts of Information theory are guaranteed to strain your brain (which grows bigger and stronger with exercise) and to change the way at which you look at the world and its many curious phenomena. Just reading this article will change the way that you think. The Free Dictionary offers several terse, but compressed (no pun intended) working definitions of Information Theory : information theory n. The theory of the probability of transmission of messages with specified accuracy when the bits of information constituting the messages are subject, with certain probabilities, to transmission failure, distortion, and accidental additions. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company . Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company . All rights reserved. information theory n (Mathematics) a collection of mathematical theories, based on statistics, concerned with m...