RosettaCodeData/Task/Entropy/Ruby/entropy-1.rb

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Ruby

def entropy(s)
counts = Hash.new(0.0)
s.each_char { |c| counts[c] += 1 }
leng = s.length
counts.values.reduce(0) do |entropy, count|
freq = count / leng
entropy - freq * Math.log2(freq)
end
end
p entropy("1223334444")