On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 11:08:18PM +0200, Jochen Fromm wrote: > Nice to see the list is still alive :-) Entropy as > information in disguise. Interesting. Isn't Entropy > related to disorder, that is to say lack of information? > > -J.
Something like that. The exact relationship is S + I = SM where S is entropy, I is information and SM is the log of total number of states the system could be in. Information is sometimes said to be "negentropy", because \Delta I = - \Delta S when your system size remains constant over time. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
