[Cdn-DMCA] Creators Connecting

[mskala at ansuz.sooke.bc.ca]

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
more possible states, it require more bits to represent what state it's
in; a disordered system contains more information.  Both "entropy" and
"information" are measured in the same units (negative log of
probability) and in information theory, they're defined to be the same.
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Matthew Skala
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