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Limiting density of discrete points

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The limiting density of discrete points is an adjustment made by Edwin Thompson Jaynes to Claude Elwood Shannon's fundamental uniqueness theorem. The adjustment was created to allow Shannon's information measure formulation to be compatible with continuous distributions.