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<p>a system with less than a 'practically infinite' number (much much less than Avogadro's or Loschmidt's numbers) of molecules, the thermodynamic reproducibility fades, and fluctuations become easier to see.</p>

<p>According to this view of <a href="page.php?w=Edwin_Thompson_Jaynes">Jaynes</a>, it is a common and confusing abuse of language, that one often sees reproducibility of dynamical structure called "order". Dewar writes "Jaynes considered reproducibility - rather than disorder -  to be the key idea behind the second law of thermodynamics</p><p>
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