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What Is Entropy?

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1. bowsamic ◴[] No.43689114[source]
I didn’t read in depth but it seems to me on first glance (please correct me if I’m wrong) but as with all articles on entropy this seems to explain everything but the classical thermodynamic quantity called entropy which is 1. the quantity to which all these others are chosen to be related to and 2. the one that is by far the most difficult to explain intuitively

Information and statistical explanations of entropy are very easy. The real question is, what does entropy mean in the original context that it was introduced in, before those later explanations?