Perhaps we could say he's comparing Shannon entropy per symbol for the two systems.
It seems that what's special about rationals with power-of-10 (with power > 1) denominators is that we have a readily available shorthand, uh notation, for them.
Notation can be very significant. The transition from Roman numberals to positional notation with 0 took a thousand or so years. But boy did it ever make long division easier!
It seems that what's special about rationals with power-of-10 (with power > 1) denominators is that we have a readily available shorthand, uh notation, for them.
Notation can be very significant. The transition from Roman numberals to positional notation with 0 took a thousand or so years. But boy did it ever make long division easier!