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Added tag, improved LaTeX'ing. I had never seen binomial coefficients as matrices!

Asymptotic value of the Shannon entropy

I would like to evaluate the asymptotic value of the following sum:

$$\frac{1}{2^N}\sum_{n=0}^{N} \binom{N}{n} \log_{2} \binom{N}{n}$$

This is related to the computation of the Shannon entropy. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Ryan
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