Entropy and disorder

[Richard Fiero]

Carlo Trimarchi wrote:
>Hi, I'm preparing a seminar about entropy (especially for what concern
>thermodynamics and information theory) for a course called History and
>Didactics of Informatic. So I read a lot of material on and outside
>Internet and I discovered that the idea of entropy as a measure of
>disorder is misleading or wrong. There are a lot of well documented
>sites about this, such as:
>
>www.entropysite.com
>
>www.entropysimple.com
>
>www.2ndlaw.com
>
>I read again the story Entropy with these new ideas in mynd (because I
>have always associated entropy to disorder) and I'm curious to know
>your opinion.
>
>Bye.
>Carlo

H=K ln(1/p)
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/what/shannonday/paper.html