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According to what I learned from this article (page 23-24), the first one is an approximation of the second one, when ##\Omega(E)## increases rapidly and ##E_*## gives the maximum value of ##\Omega(E)e^{-βE}##. So the partition function ##Z≈\Omega(E_*)e^{-βE_*}##, thus ##S≈k_Bln\Omega(E_*)##.