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[OngBonga]

Entropy isn't really a math thing. I mean, obviously there's a fuck ton of math involved in thermodynamics, but you don't need to actually do the math to understand what thermodynamics is. You just have to trust the math.

[MadMojoMonkey]

Entropy isn't really a math thing. I mean, obviously there's a fuck ton of math involved in thermodynamics, but you don't need to actually do the math to understand what thermodynamics is. You just have to trust the math.

The math of thermodynamics is elementary school math for the most part. It's mostly bookkeeping and the math is addition and subtraction. In the rare case where you'd need to solve an integral, someone has already solved it, and you just look up the solutions. Typically, you'll have an extensive table of those integral solutions, and you're just looking up the values and plugging them into your equations to do some plus and minus on them.