, 559, 560 pair, 310 Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (state), 310, 356, 362 protocol, 523, 559-62 Electromagnetic (EM) wave, 544 state (or Bell state), see State Electronic voting/polling, 543 Equiprobability, 4 Elias code, see Code Equivocation, 73, 238, 240, 245, 618 Encoder, 208 Erathosthenes, 538 Index Erlang (-) distribution, see Probability FANOUT gate, 293, 297, 299, 330, 331 Error correction/correcting Fast Fourier transform, see Fourier transform classical, xix, 40, 162, 273, 591 Favero I., xxi code, 208, 244 FEC, see Forward error correction function, see Complementary Feldmann, D., 587 quantum, see Quantum Fermat Error algorithm, see Algorithm backward (-) correction, see Backward theorem, see Theorem bit (-) rate, see Bit error rate Fermi decompression (-), see Decompression energy level, 27 forward (-) correction, see Forward function, 27 quantum (-) correction, see Quantum Feynmann, R., 286 symbol, 208, 209, 234, 242 FGK (code/algorithm), see Code symbol (-) rate (SER), 232, 242-4, Fibonacci code, see Code Esperluette, 167 numbers, 181, 182 Ethernet, 225 Fidelity, 457, 458, 462, 466, 497, 498, Euler's theorem, see Theorem Event(s) FLIP-FLOP gate, 294 anti-correlated, 15 Forcinito, M. A., 246, 258 combined, 11 Forward error correction, 211 complementary, 12 Fouché-Gaines, H., 58, 69, 116 conditional, 70 Fourier transform correlated, 13, 15 discrete, 384 correlation, 13 fast (FFT), 383, 389 discrete, 20, 84 inverse, 384, 399 independent, 15, 16, 70 quantum, see Quantum joint, 11, 70 Frame (audio-CD), 592 mutually exclusive, 12 Fredkin gate, 297, 320 outcome, 2 French probabilistic, 1-3 language source, 58, 160 probability, see Probability revolution, 128 space/set, 2, 41 wheel, 170 uncorrelated, 15, 16 Frequency analysis (cryptography), 526 Exams (taking), 13 Fruit-market shopping, 10-11 Expectation value, 21, 433, 483, 502 Function Expected (codeword) length, 136 failure, 29 Exponential reliability, 29 distribution, see Probability imaginary, 628 Gadsby (novel), 185 operator, see Operator Galileo, 226 Expone