# Metadata Source URL:: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limiting_density_of_discrete_points#:~:text=In%20information%20theory,of%20differential%20entropy Topics:: #mathematic --- # Limiting density of discrete points - Wikipedia ## Highlights > [!quote]+ Updated on 100922_161620 > > In information theory, the limiting density of discrete points is an adjustment to the formula of Claude Shannon for differential entropy. >It was formulated by Edwin Thompson Jaynes to address defects in the initial definition of differential entropy.