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From: hua@cmu-cs-edu1.ARPA (Ernest Hua)
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Subject: re: in Order to Order the Order
Message-ID: <274@cmu-cs-edu1.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 7-May-85 06:44:33 EDT
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Posted: Tue May  7 06:44:33 1985
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A. Ray Miller,

You wrote a nice little article on the meaning of the word "order".
In it you said that Yosi Hoshen might have made errors in the usage
of the word, since it, as you demonstrated, has multiple meanings.

Unfortunately, the word, taken in the context of the original reply
by Yoshi, has no poor usage in anyway.  He was simply demonstrating
that entropy can decrease locally, while other regions increase to
at least balance the decrease, if not exceed it.  You can actually
compute this entropy decrease.  (Please refer to any book on thermo-
dynamics.)

Yoshi's example is quite valid for his point.
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Live long and prosper.
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