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bits per byte (max 8.0)
Bytes— Distinct bytes— Verdict—
Reading the number
≈ 8.0 — encrypted or compressed (indistinguishable from random). ≈ 5–6 — natural-language text. ≈ 6.5–7.5 — base64 / minified / packed code. < 3 — padding, single repeated byte, or structured binary. Entropy is a heuristic, not proof: base64 of a small string can look “random” while being trivially decodable.