Describe entropy program

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@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ TARGETS += unhex
TARGETS += pcat
TARGETS += slice
TARGETS += hex
TARGETS += entropy
SCRIPTS += octets

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### entropy: compute shannon entropy
Displays the Shannon entropy of the input.
~/src/fluffy $ echo -n a | ./entropy
0.000000
~/src/fluffy $ echo -n aaaaaaaaa | ./entropy
0.000000
~/src/fluffy $ echo -n aaaaaaaaab | ./entropy
0.468996
~/src/fluffy $ echo -n aaaaaaaaabc | ./entropy
0.865857
### pyesc: python escape input
Escapes input octets for pasting into a python "print" statement.