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Entropy is a
scientific concept, as well as a
measurable physical property that is most
commonly ****ociated with a
state of disorder, randomness, or uncertainty...
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information theory, the
entropy of a
random variable is the
average level of "information", "surprise", or "uncertainty"
inherent in the variable's...
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thermodynamics establishes the
concept of
entropy as a
physical property of a
thermodynamic system.
Entropy predicts the
direction of
spontaneous processes...
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unavailable as a
source for
useful work.
Entropy may also
refer to:
Entropy (classical thermodynamics),
thermodynamic entropy in
macroscopic terms, with less emphasis...
- In
information theory, the cross-
entropy between two
probability distributions p {\displaystyle p} and q {\displaystyle q} over the same
underlying set...
- Kullback–Leibler divergence, D KL {\displaystyle D_{\text{KL}}} (also
called relative entropy), is a
measure of how one
probability distribution is
different from a...
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electrical engineering. A key
measure in
information theory is
entropy.
Entropy quantifies the
amount of
uncertainty involved in the
value of a random...
- In computing,
entropy is the
randomness collected by an
operating system or
application for use in
cryptography or
other uses that
require random data...
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entropy states that the
probability distribution which best
represents the
current state of
knowledge about a
system is the one with
largest entropy,...
- The
concept entropy was
first developed by
German physicist Rudolf Clausius in the mid-nineteenth
century as a
thermodynamic property that
predicts that...
