EDUCATION - New method to measure the redundancy of information

Understanding information as well as its redundancy, or duplication, has been crucial in the development of many of our everyday items such mobile phones, the internet, the compact disc as well as ensuring the success of many space missions. Using information geometry tools, researchers have developed a new mathematically precise method of measuring information redundancy.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130214132809.ht