Re: Order being born from disorder?-ERRATUM

[roger haar <haar@soliton.physics.arizona.edu>]

Hi,

	Either I am confused (quite likely) or there is something 
fundamentally wrong with this question.  If entropy is a measure of the 
number of distinct microstates of a macroscopic system, how can you 
define the entropy of a defined microstate?  One can ask about the 
entropy of a ten-bit system or a ten-bit system with 4 one's or a ten-bit 
system with 4 consectutive one's but if you fully define the microstate
then where is the probability distribution?

Thanks
Roger Haar

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On Sat, 17 May 1997, LUDWIK KOWALSKI wrote:

> I do plan to understand the nuances of David's message. But being still
> a concrete operational person I would like somebody to assign entropies
> to the following patterns. Each of them is ten bits long sequnce of zeros
> and ones.
>               0000011111   entropy= ?
>               1111100000   entropy= ? (probably the same as above)
>               0101010101   entropy= ?
>               0010011011   entropy=?
>               0001001100   entropy=?
>               0000000000   entropy=?
>               1100110011   entropy=?
>               0001000001   entropy=?
>
> And explain the algorithm of assignments. Thanks in advance, Ludwik