You should call it entrop…

news — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 19:08:35 +0000

You should call it entropy, for two reasons. In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name, so it already has a name. In the second place, and more important, no one really knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage.
- John von Neumann, giving advice to Claude Shannon on what to name his discovery.