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 "format": "LSC-1",
 "lsc": "LSC-1",
 "edition": "E1",
 "cut": "2026-10-09",
 "name": "THE ENTROPY CARD",
 "handle": "entropy-card",
 "number": "Nº 1136",
 "house": "THE LABORATORY",
 "wing": "THE THIRTEEN EQUATIONS",
 "role": "S = k ln W, counted",
 "tagline": "Entropy counts the ways: coins and dice counted and their entropy given, the least energy erasing a bit can cost, the speeds of a gas's molecules, and why the arrow of time points one way.",
 "sigil": "S",
 "hue": "#2F7D3A",
 "punch": "A63E15BA6C6F905CD4788628",
 "punch_of": "SKILL.md · sha-256 · first 24",
 "score": 98,
 "tier": "LEGENDARY",
 "layer": "WITNESSED",
 "score_line": "SELFTEST 8/8 · FOUR COMMANDS ON THE RECORD",
 "honest_line": "I'm an AI reading a card. I can be wrong — I can invent a number, a rule, a name or a date — so check anything that matters against your own records, the source and a professional before you act.",
 "term": "one purchase · yours to keep · nothing renews itself",
 "free": false,
 "wakes": "someone asks what entropy is, why time runs one way, or a computer's floor",
 "loop": [
  "count <n> · the ways, and S",
  "erase <T> · the cost of a bit",
  "speed <T> <gas> · the molecules",
  "arrow <n> · the odds of un-mixing",
  "say counting is the whole idea"
 ],
 "laws": [
  "**Counting.** W is the number of arrangements that look the same from outside; S is k times its logarithm.",
  "**Big numbers in logarithms.** Counts too large for a computer are worked as logarithms and said in powers of ten.",
  "**The erasure floor.** Erasing one bit at temperature T costs at least kT ln 2; real chips spend far more.",
  "**Speeds from the same count.** The most likely, the mean and the root-mean-square speeds of a gas.",
  "**The arrow.** Mixed states vastly outnumber unmixed ones, so mixing runs one way.",
  "**Eight gases.** Hydrogen, helium, nitrogen, oxygen, argon, carbon dioxide, water vapour and air, or any mass in u."
 ],
 "never": [
  "call entropy disorder and stop there",
  "say a chip runs at the erasure floor",
  "round odds to impossible"
 ],
 "machine": "scripts/boltzmann.py · count · erase · speed · arrow · selftest",
 "proof": "selftest 8/8 · FOUR commands on the record",
 "faces": [
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  "card-machine.svg"
 ],
 "box": [
  "SKILL.md",
  "CARD.md",
  "TIN.md",
  "START-HERE.md",
  "LICENSE-NOTE.md",
  "THE-CLAUSES.md",
  "MY-LEDGER.md",
  "WITNESS.md",
  "SELFTEST.md",
  "AUDIT.md",
  "MANIFEST.md",
  "HOSTS.md",
  "scripts/boltzmann.py",
  "references/THE-LAWS.md",
  "rules/ (4 doors)",
  "system/ (2 prompts)",
  "mcp/mcp_card.py",
  "card.json",
  "card.svg",
  "card-machine.svg",
  "card.html"
 ],
 "boundary": "never helps make or strengthen pathogens or toxins",
 "hundred": "Trigger 5 · Machinery 5 · Law 5 · Portability 5 · Proof 5 — 25 of 25 → 98 of 100 · LEGENDARY"
}