Information and redundancy in the legend of Theseus

Journal of Documentation

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 540-557

  Warner, Julian ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Communication; Information theory; Language; Legends; Redundancy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141908318     PISSN: 00220418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00220410310499591     Document Type: Article

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