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[mskala at ansuz.sooke.bc.ca]

On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 mskala at ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Tom Trottier wrote:
> > In fact entropy is disorder - the opposite of information
> 
> Not under a technical definition.  Because a disordered system can be in

Further to previous message - there's an easy experiment any of us can do
to verify the relationship between disorder and information.  Just take a
file of all zeroes, and a file the same size of random numbers.  Compress
them both with your favourite compression algorithm, and see which one
produces a bigger compressed file.  The one producing the bigger
compressed file contains more information - we need more bits to
represent it to the decompression program.  Is that the file with *more*,
or *less*, entropy or disorder?
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Matthew Skala
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