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Szilard:1929:EET
[Szi29] L. Szilard. Über die Entropieverminderung in einem thermodynamischen
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that the entropy of a unit of information is equal to k log 2, foreshadowing
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Szilard:1964:DET
[Szi64] Leo Szilard. On the decrease of entropy in a thermodynamic system
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Szilard:1976:ERT
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Thomsen:2009:SEC
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