SMRTR Science & EngineeringJun 23, 2025John D. Cook

Uniformity increases entropy

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Entropy in a system reaches its maximum when all states are equally probable and minimum when one outcome is certain, with the entropy function H(p) being concave and ranging from 0 to log2 n.

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