Note 1

We had just computed the H value of the distribution

2 2 2 2 0 0 0 0.

This value was :  0.68
We could wonder what this value would be when we had this same 2222 distribution while having only four boxes A, B, C, D, and thus having the distribution

2 2 2 2.

Well, let us compute the corresponding H value :

The distrubution is evidently an equilibrium distribution.
Peq[A] = Peq[B] = Peq[C] = Peq[D] = 2/8 .

Box A.
P[A, t] = 2/8 .
Peq[A] = 2/8 .
P[A,t] / Peq[A] = (2/8) / (2/8) = 1 .
log ( P[A,t] / Peq[A] ) = log 1 = 0 .
P[A,t] . { log ( P[A,t] / Peq[A] ) } = (2/8)(0) = 0 .

The same goes for the remaining boxes (B, C, and D).
So the H value for this distribution is
0 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 0 .



We could also wonder what the H value is for the distribution

2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2.

Let us compute it :

Also this distribution is evidently an equilibrium distribution.
Peq[A] = Peq[B] = Peq[C] = Peq[D] = Peq[E] = Peq[F] = Peq[G] = Peq[H] = 2/16 .

Box A.
P[A, t] = 2/16 .
Peq[A] = 2/16 .
P[A,t] / Peq[A] = (2/16) / (2/16) = 1 .
log ( P[A,t] / Peq[A] ) = log 1 = 0 .
P[A,t] . { log ( P[A,t] / Peq[A] ) } = (2/16)(0) = 0 .

The same goes for the remaining boxes (B, C, D, E, F, G, and H).
So the H value for this distribution is
0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 0 .

So while the distribution  2 2 2 2 0 0 0 0  corresponds to a H value larger than zero (namely 0.68) because it is a non-equilibrium distribution, the distributions  2 2 2 2  and  2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2  have zero H values, because they are equilibrium distributions.


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