There’s some information here about why this was chosen. Specifically it fulfills certain criteria: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory)

There’s some information here about why this was chosen. Specifically it fulfills certain criteria: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory)#Characterization https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory)...