At 10:36 PM 4/9/96 -0400, JonWienke@aol.com wrote:

Would anyone like to propose a means of measuring entropy that we can all agree on? I haven't seen anything yet that everyone likes.

Nor will you: To measure entropy is a deep unsolved philosophical and physical problem. Only a known distribution has a well defined entropy. If you do not know what kinds of order might be present in your data, you cannot define the entropy. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | We have the right to defend ourselves | http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ and our property, because of the kind | of animals that we are. True law | James A. Donald derives from this right, not from the | arbitrary power of the state. | jamesd@echeque.com