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It is shown that for any two Bernoulli schemes with a finite number of states and unequal entropies, there exists a finitary homomorphism from the scheme with larger entropy to the one with smaller entropy.
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Keane, M., Smorodinsky, M. A class of finitary codes. Israel J. Math. 26, 352–371 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03007652
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03007652