Amount of InformationUnits Type ⤴
In computing and telecommunications, a unit of information is the capacity of some standard data storage system or communication channel, used to measure the capacities of other systems and channels. In information theory, units of information are also used to measure the information contents or entropy of random variables.
Term
amountOfInformation
Category
Information
Provenance
UCUM
Provenance Uri
http://unitsofmeasure.org/ucum.html#para-48
Note
-
Default Unit
Bit
Dimension Symbol
U1
Dimension Length
1
Dimension Mass
0
Dimension Time
0
Dimension Current
0
Dimension Temperature
0
Dimension Amount
0
Dimension Light
0