Information (disambiguation)

Information or info is the resolution of uncertainty, or a collection of related data or knowledge about a topic. Information may also refer to:

Data, or data used in computing
Physical information either of, or contained in a physical system
Information technology, the means of processing, storage, or transmission of data
Information theory, the mathematical theory of Information and communication
Directory assistance, a phone service used to find out a specific telephone number and/or address of a residence, business, or government entity
Information (formal criminal charge), a formal criminal charge made by a prosecutor without a grand-jury indictment
Fisher information, in statistics

Books

Information: The New Language of Science, a 2003 book by Hans Christian von Baeyer
The Information (novel), by Martin Amis (1995)
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood, a 2011 book by James Gleick

Companies

Dagbladet Information, a Danish newspaper
The Information (company), a subscription-based digital media company

Music

Albums

Information (Berlin album), 1980
Information (Dave Edmunds album), 1983
The Information (Beck album), 2006
Information, a 1997 album by Classified
Information, a 1995 album by Toenut
Information, an EP by Eliot Sumner

Songs

"Information" (Dredg song), 2009
"Information", by Gwen Stefani, an unreleased song
"Information", by Spirit, from the album The Adventures of Kaptain Kopter & Commander Cassidy in Potato Land

gollark: It'll destroy its ability to detect other patterns.

gollark: And is probably capable of efficiently compressing limited charsets *anyway*.

gollark: It would be bad because most compression stuff works at byte level IIRC.

gollark: Unless you have bigint cells, sure.

gollark: When would you ever want to do an instruction 256 times in a row?