The law of gravitation is derived from classical statistical mechanics applied to the holographic principle, that states that the description of a volume of space can be thought of as N bits of binary information, encoded on a boundary to that region, a closed surface of area A . The information is evenly distributed on the surface with each bit requiring an area equal to ℓ ℓ P 2 , the so-called Planck area, from which N can thus be computed: N = A ℓ ℓ P 2 where ℓ ℓ P is the Planck length. The Planck length is defined as: ℓ ℓ P = ℏ ℏ G c 3 where G is the universal gravitational constant, c is the speed of light, and ℏ ℏ is the reduced Planck constant. When substituted in the equation for N we find: N = A c 3 ℏ ℏ G