On: Ask HN: What is your favorite CS paper?

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"A Mathematical Theory of Communication" - Claude E. Shannon

http://math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shannon/entrop...

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Definition of a fairly important term from that paper...

"If the base 2 is used the resulting units may be called binary digits, or more briefly bits, a word suggested by J. W. Tukey"

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All time hit paper

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I like the papers that describe the OOPS and the Gödel Machine :)