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For circular regions with the dimensionless radius R normalized by the average distance between points, we identify two limits: Limit-1 (R = 2.5, 16 \u00b1 6 points) is the minimum radius, for which it is possible to construct a Voronoi diagram, and Limit-2 (R = 5.5, 96 \u00b1 6 points) at which the VE reaches the saturation level. We also discuss examples of seed point patterns for which the values of VE exceed the asymptotic value of S &gt; 1.69. While the VE accounts only for neighboring polygons, covering the 2D plane imposes constraints on the number of polygons and the number of edges in polygons. Consequently, unlike the conventional Shannon Entropy, the VE captures some long-range order properties of the system. We calculate the VE for several hyperuniform sets of points and compare it with the values of exponents of collective density variables characterizing long-range correlations in the system. We show that the VE correlates with the latter up to a certain saturation level, after which the value of the VE falls to S = 0, and we explain this phenomenon.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/e28010095","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,1,13]],"date-time":"2026-01-13T11:42:58Z","timestamp":1768304578000},"page":"95","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Extreme Values and Convergence of the Voronoi Entropy for 2D Random Point Processes and for Long-Range Order"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"28","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3025-6130","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mark","family":"Frenkel","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Chemical Engineering, Ariel University, P.O.B. 3, Ariel 407000, Israel"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6384-7570","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Irina","family":"Legchenkova","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Chemical Engineering, Ariel University, P.O.B. 3, Ariel 407000, Israel"},{"name":"CEITEC BUT, Brno University of Technology, Purky\u0148ova 123, 61200 Brno, Czech Republic"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1356-2486","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Edward","family":"Bormashenko","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Chemical Engineering, Ariel University, P.O.B. 3, Ariel 407000, Israel"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0582-4821","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Shraga","family":"Shoval","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Faculty of Engineering, Ariel University, P.O.B. 3, Ariel 407000, Israel"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0980-3670","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Michael","family":"Nosonovsky","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53211, USA"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,1,13]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2924","DOI":"10.1039\/c2sm06808g","article-title":"Non-crystalline colloidal clusters in two dimensions: Size distributions and shapes","volume":"8","author":"Janai","year":"2012","journal-title":"Soft Matter"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Bormashenko, E., Frenkel, M., Vilk, A., Legchenkova, I., Fedorets, A.A., Aktaev, N., Dombrovsky, L.A., and Nosonovsky, M. 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