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I am sure this has a simple answer, but I don't seem to get it at the moment. I am going through a derivation of the Boltzmann's distribution by maximising the entropy with the constraints that the sum of the probabilities add to 1 and the average energy is some constant value. My question is really why must we maximise the entropy in order to get Boltzmann's distribution; thus does that mean that a system under this distribution have maximum entropy as a result?