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The processes of splitting and merging of black holes obey the composition law generated by the Tsallis-Cirto δ=2 statistics. The same composition law expresses the full entropy of the Reissner-Nordström black hole via the entropies of its outer and inner horizons. Here we apply this composition law to the thermodynamics of the Kerr black hole. As distinct from Reissner-Nordström black hole, where the full entropy depends only on mass M and does not depend on its charge Q, the entropy of Kerr black hole is the sum of contributions from its mass M and angular momentum J, i.e. $S(M,J)=S(M,0) + 4\pi \sqrt{J(J+1)}$ . Here S(M,0) is the entropy of the Schwarzschild black hole. This demonstrates that when the Kerr black hole with $J\gg 1$ absorbs or emits a massless particle with spin $s_z=\pm 1/2$ , its entropy changes by |Δ S| = 2π. We also considered the quantization of entropy suggested by the toy model, in which the black hole thermodynamics is represented by the ensemble of the Planck-scale black holes - Planckons. The Tsallis-Cirto composition law is also extended to the thermodynamics of Kerr-Newman black hole and Schwarzschild-de Sitter black hole.