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Comment author: passive_fist 02 February 2015 06:47:31PM 0 points [-]

The block of ice is not of unknown configuration. The block of ice in my example is at 0 K, which means it has zero entropy (all molecules rigidly locked in a regular periodic lattice) and thus its configuration is completely known.