Oops! I just noticed an embarrassing numerical error (in a parenthetical
phrase) in my previous very long post to the reflector whose subject was
entitled "Entropy (was Re: Human Designers vs. God-as-Designer)". The
error was in the 8th paragraph following the question labeled Q3. This
paragraph began with the word "Fourth,". In the 4th sentence of this
paragraph I wrote:
> For example, *if* our (very
>unrealistic) system has only a million (10^6) possible microstates, and
>if each one of them are equally likely as all of the others, then the
>entropy of this set of possibilities is just 6 decimal digits (or 13.8
>bits) no matter *how* complicated the individual microscopic states
>happen to be to build.
It ends up that the last phrase above that is enclosed with parentheses
should read: " (or 19.93 bits)" rather than " (or 13.8 bits)" as I
incorrectly wrote above.
Please note the correction.
David Bowman
David_Bowman@georgetowncollege.edu
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