nat (unit)
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The natural unit of information (symbol: nat),[1] sometimes also nit or nepit, is a unit of information or information entropy, based on natural logarithms and powers of e, rather than the powers of 2 and base 2 logarithms, which define the shannon. This unit is also known by its unit symbol, the nat. One nat is the information content of an event when the probability of that event occurring is 1/e.
One nat is equal to 1/ln 2 shannons ≈ 1.44 Sh or, equivalently, 1/ln 10 hartleys ≈ 0.434 Hart.[1]