This led him to calculate that the information content of any event was proportional to the logarithm of its inverse probability of occurrence.

这使他提出了这样的推论：事件的信息容量与事件发生逆概率的对数成正比。

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The degradation rule of metsulfuron-methyl accorded with decaying exponential, that meant there was inverse linear correlation between the logarithm of metsulfuron-methyl concentration and the time;

甲磺隆在土壤中的降解符合指数降解规律，即土壤中剩余甲磺隆浓度的对数与小麦生长时间呈线性负相关；

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This led him to calculate that the information content of any event was proportional to the logarithm of its inverse probability of occurrence. (Unlike many popular-science books that eschew equations, Mr Vedral includes a couple and tries his best to explain them to the reader.) What does the equation mean?

ECONOMIST: Information theory