shannon-entropy

A rust library to calculate the Shannon entropy of a string.

Usage

Available on crates.io

Add this to your Cargo.toml

toml [dependencies] shannon-entropy = "0.2"

Example

```rust fn main() { let test_strings = vec![ ("hello world", 2.8453512), ("hello worldd", 2.8553884), ("a", 0.0), ("", 0.0), ];

for (test, answer) in teststrings { let entropy: f32 = shannonentropy(test); assert_eq!(entropy, answer); }
} ```