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\subsection{Counting microstates: thermodynamics versus statistical physics}  This section considers the difference between thermodynamic and statistical entropy: they are not the same quantities, and perhaps researchers are too keen to force the them  to be so? so. Not sure yet whether this is relevant to my task.  If you are not careful, answers you get for statistical physics entropy disagree with the thermodynamic result (the classic example is removing the partition between two identical boxes of gas). The resolution is usually to claim that this is evidence for QM: in QM, identical particles are indistinguishable, and this changes the multiplicity by a factor $1/N!$. An unacceptable fudge?