the Ex-word

Anton Sherwood (dasher@netcom.com)
Wed, 5 Nov 1997 19:21:52 -0800 (PST)


T0Morrow writes
: I coined this work in January of '88 in the course of researching the
: information-based interpretation of entropy. The roots "ex" and "tropy"
: essentially mean "out of" and "disorder." [...]

Er, Tom, I think you'll find that _tropy_ means `turning'

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