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To illustrate this concept, Matt O'Dowd employs the analogy of a Go board filled with black stones. When 180 black stones are placed randomly across the board, the arrangement yields a high degree of disorder—the entropy is at its maximum. Conversely, if all these stones are gathered on one side of the board, that configuration exhibits a far lower entropy because the variety of arrangements is significantly constrained. However, a lesser-known configuration can present an apparent paradox where particles are arranged in stripes, yet do not substantially differ in average thermodynamic properties across regions.