[Bro-Dev] Changes in entropy computation code.

Seth Hall seth at icir.org
Thu Oct 6 17:00:29 PDT 2011


On Oct 6, 2011, at 4:19 PM, Clark, Gilbert wrote:

> Two conclusions here (referencing the following two lines of the patch):
> 
> -                       ent += prob[i] * rt_log2(1 / prob[i]);
> +                       ent += prob[i] * rt_log2(prob[i]);
> 
> (1)  That the patched code would need to be:
> 
> ent -= prob[i] * rt_log2(prob[i]);


So, this is what we should do with this line?  

  .Seth

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