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Metcalfe's Law Refuted

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the all-links-are-not-made-equal dept.

pdp0x14 writes "Cnet News reports on a powerful refutation of Metcalfe's Law (that the value of a network goes up with n^2 in the number of members). The academic paper is available at Southwest Missouri State University. Basically, the thesis is that not all the links in a network are equally valuable, so Metcalfe's argument that everyone can connect to everyone (n(n-1)/2 links, roughly n^2) is irrelevant. The authors propose nlog(n) instead, a much smaller increase."

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  1. Good :-) by Space+cowboy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Never did like that guy ever since he dissed Linux.

    [Hint for the humour impaired: I'm not being entirely serious here... Sigh, only on /. would I qualify this...]

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