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.
- John von Neumann, Quoted by M. Tribus — Scientific American, 225, “Energy and Information”, p. 180, 1971, Suggestion of von Neumann to Shannon regarding the name of his new uncertainty function
- John von Neumann, Quoted by M. Tribus — Scientific American, 225, “Energy and Information”, p. 180, 1971, Suggestion of von Neumann to Shannon regarding the name of his new uncertainty function
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