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Generating $k$ random bits from a pdf with entropy $H(p) = k$

All the sources online say that, intuitively, a distribution with entropy $k$ has $k$ bits of pure randomness in it. So can we formalize this as follows? Suppose I can only sample from my distribution,...
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