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roywiggins
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Origin of 'Daemon' in Computing
It seems to come from measuring the particles at all. One result is that the demon has to store information about the particles, and erasing that information to free up memory increases the entropy of the gas/demon system.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_demon#Criticism_...
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