From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 14 23:33:51 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E05AC37B401 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 23:33:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from pursued-with.net (adsl-66-125-9-242.dsl.sndg02.pacbell.net [66.125.9.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 532A743F6D for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 23:33:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net) Received: from pursued-with.net (fffinch [192.168.168.101]) by pursued-with.net (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h0F7Xjhw028622; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 23:33:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 23:33:44 -0800 Subject: Re: entropy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG To: Alex.Wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au From: Kevin Stevens In-Reply-To: <20030115171523.P97610@squirm.dsto.defence.gov.au> Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, Jan 14, 2003, at 22:46 US/Pacific, Wilkinson,Alex wrote: > Can someone recommend to me where I can read up on > entropy. > > ie what it is ? Why we have it ? etc etc > > - aW Entropy is a tendency towards disorder in the universe, exemplified by things LIKE SOME FREAKIN' CLUELESS GIT POSTING A TOTALLY OFF-TOPIC SCIENCE MESSAGE TO A COMPUTER OS LIST!!! Did you actually have to MOVE your browser from in front of the mail program to AVOID searching for this on the web?!? KeS OB-FreeBSD: /usr/ports/math/entropy "Entropy is a program that will calculate the entropy of a given set of data. This program is mainly used to benchmark the efficiency of existing or developing compression algorithms." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message