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Permalink Reply by Vikram Jadhav on December 2, 2012 at 20:15

The concept of information half-life, as coined by Burton & Kebler (Burton &
Kebler, 1960), has its origins in the physical sciences. Originally used to describe
unstable atoms, half-life was defined as the time it takes for a substance undergoing
decay to decrease by half (Half-life).
When applied to information, half-life is defined as the time it takes for
information to lose half of its value. For the purposes of GIAC Enterprises, 

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