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To: TeenagedConservative

Are you heading to the good old 2nd law of thermodynamics argument? Because while there is a second law for thermodynamic entropy, there is no second law for informational entropy. Informational entropy is just a statistical quantity with a defining equation similar to thermondynamic energy, but without the laws of thermodynamics around it. Simple pure mathematics.

The matter is discussed in the text: Denbigh and Denbigh [1985].


49 posted on 05/09/2005 9:29:25 AM PDT by crail (Better lives have been lost on the gallows than have ever been enshrined in the halls of palaces.)
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To: crail

If you want to play that card, you have to deny the field of probability mathematics.


264 posted on 05/10/2005 1:25:14 PM PDT by TeenagedConservative
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