RosettaCodeData/Task/Entropy-Narcissist/Lua/entropy-narcissist.lua
2023-07-01 13:44:08 -04:00

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Lua

function getFile (filename)
local inFile = io.open(filename, "r")
local fileContent = inFile:read("*all")
inFile:close()
return fileContent
end
function log2 (x) return math.log(x) / math.log(2) end
function entropy (X)
local N, count, sum, i = X:len(), {}, 0
for char = 1, N do
i = X:sub(char, char)
if count[i] then
count[i] = count[i] + 1
else
count[i] = 1
end
end
for n_i, count_i in pairs(count) do
sum = sum + count_i / N * log2(count_i / N)
end
return -sum
end
print(entropy(getFile(arg[0])))