Many of you with more mathematical minds than I probably know about
Reed's Law, but for those who don't, what I discovered today when I was
reading an article on how the PR industry is trying to sell
bio-technology is:
"Dr. David P. Reed, former vice president and chief scientist for Lotus
Develop
Thank you, Chris,
for this nice explanation of the potential of the internet (or any other
event/setting where people have the possibility to "form groups").
The next step should be to examine the enhancement of group formation due
to specific setting details. What makes the difference between th
On 9/11/02 1:12 PM, "Chris Corrigan" wrote:
> "Ah well," you can say. "That's only 4,083 possible groups that might
> form today for each session. Do you think we need more breakout
> spaces?"
THAT DOES IT!!
I'm NEVER opening space for more than one person ever again!!!
Ralph Copleman
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Chris - what a wonderful insight - all I can say is that we'll probably now
need the whole of Australia to fit in the groups at OSonOS...good job its
being held here this year!
peace and blessings
Brendan
At 11:12 AM 11-09-02 -0700, you wrote:
"Ah well," you can say. "That's only 4,083 possib
Hi Chris!!!
Congratulations for a job well done. I always face
claims about the small number of participants for
prospective OS mettings in Bolivia. Reed's Law will be
an excellent argument to show possibilities. However,
I can not replicate the formula in order to confirm
your findings for 12 peo
Jaime wrote:
> Hi Chris!!!
>
> Congratulations for a job well done. I always face
> claims about the small number of participants for
> prospective OS mettings in Bolivia. Reed's Law will be
> an excellent argument to show possibilities. However,
> I can not replicate the formula in order to
rv.boisestate.edu
> Subject: Re: I just discovered Reed's Law
>
> Jaime wrote:
>
> > Hi Chris!!!
> >
> > Congratulations for a job well done. I always face
> > claims about the small number of participants for
> > prospective OS mettings in Bolivia.
tember 12, 2002 3:18 PM
Subject: Re: I just discovered Reed's Law
> I think I see the problem. Superscripts didn't work out very well.
>
> The formula is "2 to the power of N minus N minus 1." "N" is the number
> of people in your group.
>
> Someti
Toni Sar'h enquired:
> Okay, let me be the one who doesn't totally understand. I AM with
you to
> the 2 to the power of N - then why are you subtracting the number in
the
> group and then 1? Thanks for the assist.
Well, I hoped my disclaimer re: not being a math genius would exempt me
from q
