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    Entropy is a scientific concept that is most commonly associated with a state of disorder, randomness, or uncertainty. The term and the concept are used...
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    In information theory, the entropy of a random variable is the average level of "information", "surprise", or "uncertainty" inherent to the variable's...
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    process." The second law of thermodynamics establishes the concept of entropy as a physical property of a thermodynamic system. It predicts whether processes...
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  • In information theory, the cross-entropy between two probability distributions p {\displaystyle p} and q {\displaystyle q} , over the same underlying...
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  • The entropy unit is a non-S.I. unit of thermodynamic entropy, usually denoted "e.u." or "eU" and equal to one calorie per kelvin per mole, or 4.184 joules...
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  • statistics, the Kullback–Leibler (KL) divergence (also called relative entropy and I-divergence), denoted D KL ( P ∥ Q ) {\displaystyle D_{\text{KL}}(P\parallel...
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  • Research concerning the relationship between the thermodynamic quantity entropy and both the origin and evolution of life began around the turn of the...
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  • Look up entropy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Entropy is a scientific concept that is most commonly associated with a state of disorder, randomness...
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  • entropy is a sociological theory that evaluates social behaviours using a method based on the second law of thermodynamics. The equivalent of entropy...
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    energy, and will therefore be unable to sustain processes that increase entropy. Heat death does not imply any particular absolute temperature; it only...
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