What's the Entropy of a Random Integer? (quomodocumque.wordpress.com)
26 points by sebg 5 days ago
kylehotchkiss 19 minutes ago
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
buredoranna 2 hours ago
one of my favorites