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What Is Entropy?

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1. im3w1l ◴[] No.43693937[source]
So here is an amusing thought experiment I thought of at one point.

Imagine a very high resolution screen. Say a billion by a billion pixels. Each of them can be white, gray or black. What is the lowest entropy possible? Each of the pixels has the same color. How does the screen look? Gray. What is the highest entropy possible? Each pixel has a random color. How does it look from a distance? Gray again.

What does this mean? I have no idea. Maybe nothing.

Also sorry for writing two top level comments, but I just really care about this topic