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Balance = normalised Shannon entropy

The entropy is 1 when the five phases are perfectly even and 0 when everything piles into one. This is exactly where the balance score comes from: evenness scores higher, and both extremes fall away again.

Our model, base 5 so the result lands in 0 to 1

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