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In 1949, Claude Shannon was characterizing information loss, and needed a term for the degree to which information is scrambled. Visiting mathematical physicist John von Neumann, he received the following advice:
"You should call it entropy... nobody knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage."
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