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In the view of Jaynes (1957), thermodynamic entropy, as explained by statistical mechanics, should be seen as an application of Shannon's information theory: the thermodynamic entropy is interpreted as being proportional to the amount of further Shannon information needed to define the detailed microscopic state of the system, that remains uncommunicated by a description solely in terms of the macroscopic variables of classical thermodynamics, with the constant of proportionality being just ...
1 (b) The entropy of a partition does not depend on the order in which the elements of the partition are numbered. ( 2 c) The entropy of a partition is nonnegative and equal to zero if and only if one of the elements \(A_i\) of the partition has measure 1 (and all other elements have measure zero).haos is the state of a system (physical or dynamical) in which elements of all kinds are mixed evenly throughout the space, so that the space is homogeneous. For example, a container with gas is in its state of maximal entropy when the temperature and pressure are constant throughout the volume.