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Re:Is this c/10 spaceship known? by creshal on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @05:32PM (#11256167)
> Now if only we had descriptions of chemistry that were this terse.

Chemistry is dealing with a lot, lot more of concepts than the study of the Game of Life. Brevity only works when you have few enough information that you can map it to only concise words.

(Entropy strikes again, even if it's information entropy for a change.)

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Re:Is this c/10 spaceship known? by zrm on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @07:23PM (#11256630)
> (Entropy strikes again, even if it's information entropy for a change.)

Information entropy and physics entropy are actually the same thing. You can measure heat capacity in bits.

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Re:Is this c/10 spaceship known? by creshal on Thursday March 10, 2016 @04:09AM (#11258077)
…huh. That's neat.
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Re:Is this c/10 spaceship known? by pervycreeper on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @05:36PM (#11256189)
IUPAC names are needlessly verbose and insufficiently descriptive.
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