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What's the Entropy of a Random Integer?

25 pointsby sebglast Thursday at 9:47 AM2 commentsview on HN

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kylehotchkisstoday at 9:52 PM

In John C. Baez "What is Entropy?" (A 122 page PDF best suited for reading on airplanes without wifi and in flight entertainment), he states:

> It’s easy to wax poetic about entropy, but what is it? I claim it’s the amount of information we don’t know about a situation, which in principle we could learn.

The entropy of a random integer being 1 makes intrinsic sense to me, given I didn't spend years in theoretical math classes

buredorannatoday at 8:32 PM

one of my favorites

https://xkcd.com/221/