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IN a recent communication1, Halliwell and Nyburg oppose my statement2 that the occurrence of negative degrees of freedom is entirely improbable. They also attack my statement that such an occurrence is just about as improbable as a failure of the second law of thermodynamics.
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Halliwell, H. F., and Nyburg, S. C., Nature, 200, 670 (1963).
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BRYNESTAD, J. Negative Degrees of Freedom and the Phase Rule. Nature 201, 1117–1118 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/2011117a0
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