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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