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  Let $X: P \rightarrow E$ be a random variable with $E$ a discrete probability space.  The entropy of $X$ is defined as:  \[ S(X) = \sum_{x in \in  E}P_{X}(x)*log(P_{X}(x)) \]   The entropy has three interpretations:   \begin{itemize}