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    • https://phys.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/College_Physics/College_Physics_1e_(OpenStax)/15%3A_Thermodynamics/15.07%3A_Statistical_Interpretation_of_Entropy_and_the_Second_Law_of_Thermodynamics-_The_Underlying_Explanation
      Disorder is far more likely than order, which can be seen statistically. The entropy of a system in a given state (a macrostate) can be written as \(s = KLNw,\) where \(k = 1.38 \times 10^{-23} \space...Disorder is far more likely than order, which can be seen statistically. The entropy of a system in a given state (a macrostate) can be written as \(s = KLNw,\) where \(k = 1.38 \times 10^{-23} \space J/K\) is Boltzmann’s constant, and \(lnW\) is the natural logarithm of the number of microstates \(W\) corresponding to the given macrostate.

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