Arieh Ben-Naim’s defintion of entropy is the number of binary questions one needs to ask to acquire the missing information (about a system).

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In Section 3.3, we shall see that the most appropriate interpretation of “entropy” is the number of binary questions that one needs to ask to acquire the missing information. ¹

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1. A Farewell to Entropy - Statistical Thermodynamics Based on Information p xix↩︎

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