thumbnail|right|200px|The entropy of a Bernoulli trial as a function of success probability, often called the , . The entropy is maximized at 1 bit per trial when the two possible outcomes are equally probable, as in an unbiased coin toss.
thumbnail|right|200px|The entropy of a Bernoulli trial as a function of success probability often called the   The entropy is maximized at 1 bit per trial when the two possible outcomes are equally probable as in an unbiased coin toss