Timeline for Approximation of the sum involving binary entropy function
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| Dec 19, 2021 at 5:04 | answer | added | Claude Leibovici | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 4, 2014 at 2:42 | comment | added | Brendan McKay | It's just a geometric series with the largest term at the end. Why don't you just sum it exactly? Then if you want an approximation for tiny $p$ use a Taylor expansion of the exact sum. | |
| Jan 4, 2014 at 1:41 | answer | added | Campello | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 2, 2014 at 17:56 | comment | added | Kelvin Lee | My apologies, yes, I missed the exponent for $1-H(p)$, just edited my question. | |
| Jan 2, 2014 at 17:55 | history | edited | Kelvin Lee | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Fixed the typo discovered by the commenter.
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| Jan 2, 2014 at 8:03 | comment | added | Andrew | Is something missing in the sum? As wirtten it is $S(n)=\frac{n}{1-\operatorname{H}(p)}\,$, $f(n)=1-\operatorname{H}(p)$. | |
| Jan 2, 2014 at 7:06 | history | asked | Kelvin Lee | CC BY-SA 3.0 |