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And he named his unit 'A Ban for Banburismus'. And he defined it as quote 'about the smallest change of weight in evidence that is directly perceptible to human intuition.' End quote.
One Ban represented odds of ten to one in favor of a guess. But Turing normally dealt with much smaller quantities, deciBans and even centiBans.
The Ban was basically the same as the bit, the measure of information that Claude Shannon discovered by using Bayes' rule at roughly the same time at Bell Telephone Laboratories.
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