In a distributed database system employing gossip protocols for eventual consistency, why does data entropy (lack of information) decrease more slowly when 'given' data conflicts?

💡 Explanation

Data entropy decreases slowly when 'given' data conflicts because conflict resolution mechanisms introduce overhead, stalling the spread of validated information. Conflict resolution requires additional communication rounds and processing, therefore, propagation slows down, rather than accelerating, because of validation contention.

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