Yeah, you're describing Shannon entropy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory) so

Yeah, you're describing Shannon entropy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory) so that means DRY is "try to maximise entropy" gzipped files should also look like random noise, for the same reasons.