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At 10:54 AM 2/11/00 -0500, Barlow Newbolt wrote:
>I thought the probability of any particular arrangement of cards in
>a deck is the same.
Good! Indeed all such microstates are equally likely.
> It shouldn't matter (in my view) whether the cards
>are all arranged in order or not--they are in some order and that is all
>that matters.
Well, it depends on what you are told about the deck.
--) If you are told it is sorted (in the standard order), then there is
only one ordering that is consistent with that description. That's zero
entropy.
--) In contrast, if you are told that the deck is unsorted, then there are
something like 54 factorial different orderings that are consistent with
that description. That's 237 bits of entropy.