kne1pe: "You should call it entropy, for two reasons. In the first place your uncertainty function has been..."

Tue, 14 Dec 2010 00:57:13 GMT

“You should call it entropy, for two reasons. In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name, so it already has a name. In the second place, and more important, no one really knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage.”

- Suggestion of John von Neumann to Shannon regarding the name of his new uncertainty function.