the number of decisions needed to select a given event among a finite number of mutually exclusive events, equal to the logarithm of the number of events, where the base of the logarithm is the number of choices on each decision Found on http://www.electropedia.org/iev/iev.nsf/display?openform&ievref=702-04-20
the number of decisions needed to select a given event among a finite number of mutually exclusive events, equal to the logarithm of the number of events, where the base of the logarithm is the number of choices on each decision