“A high school student used our concept to calculate the entropy of a complex physical system: the XY model,” says Professor Roy Beck. “Although this is considered a challenging problem with ...

João F. D. Rodrigues, Maximum-Entropy Prior Uncertainty and Correlation of Statistical Economic Data, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, Vol. 34, No. 3 (July 2016), pp. 357-367 ...

A new study proposes a radically simple and efficient way of calculating the complex physical quantity known as entropy -- and it probably exists on your own computer.