Question

Two coins: one is fair and one is not. Which coin has the higher entropy?

Answer 1

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When you toss a fair coin, for each side, the probability is .5, and that' head or tails basically on the coin. So the total amount of entropy is .5 times 1 (heads) + .5 times 1 (tails), or one bit.

When you toss an unfair coin you know will land on tails every time or heads every time. There’s no surprise on th outcome of the unfair coin when it lands tails, therefore there are zero bits of entropy in the flip.

Hence, an fair coin has higher entropy

Answer: Fair coin