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by giomasce 2102 days ago
Link to the proof? Or at least, does the theorem has a well-known name?
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The Shannon–Hartley theorem. It assumes additive white Gaussian noise (which is a good model for most kinds of thermal-ish noise), and provides a bound on the channel capacity that practical codes closely approach.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%E2%80%93Hartley_theore...