Translations:Minimum delay/6/en

It turns out that the price that is paid is always larger than, or at best equal to, the amount of log gain received. Causal systems for which the price paid equals the amount of log gain received are minimum-delay systems. Hence, minimum delay is the fair price to pay for log gain. All other causal systems - that is, the nonminimum-delay systems - have delays greater than the minimum. For those systems, the price paid for the log gain is greater than the fair price, and the extra amount paid is the difference between the system’s actual delay and the minimum possible delay.