I just discovered Reed's Law

[Toni Petrinovich]

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.

Toni Sar'h
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Corrigan" <chris at CHRISCORRIGAN.COM>
To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, September 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.
>
> Sometimes English is the way to go...
>
> Chris
>
>
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> >  -----Original Message-----
> >  From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of
> Chris
> >  Corrigan
> >  Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 3:12 PM
> >  To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.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. 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 people and 4083 possible groups.
> >  >  Could you please explain in a more detailed way the
> >  >  formula for me?
> >  >
> >
> >  The way I figure it, it's 212-12-1.  So that's
> 2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2
> >  which is 4096.  4096-12=4084.  4084-1=4083.
> >
> >  That's how I did it anyway.  That gives you all the possible
> >  combinations of groups of more than two.  Of course in OST, often
> groups
> >  of one meet, so that number is a little low.  I'm no math genius, but
> >  any way you cut it, the numbers are pretty impressive.  A group of 32
> >  yields a number close to 22 billion, which is something like four
> times
> >  the population of the earth.  Not that you can make any comparisons
> >  directly, but as a way of illustrating the scale of possibilities, to
> be
> >  able to walk around a room of 32 and say "within this circle, the
> number
> >  ways of organizing ourselves dwarf the population of humans on the
> >  earth" is a pretty compelling introduction to the potential of
> >  potential.  I'm going try the line this weekend, with a group of 32.
> >
> >  >  By the way, in the battle or sluggish against GM
> >  >  (genetically modified) seeds and organisms, your
> >  >  finding is very important.
> >  >
> >
> >  I thought so too.  The world is a strange place.
> >
> >  >  Warm regards from Bolivia to everybody
> >  >
> >
> >  Right back at you.
> >
> >  Chris
> >
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> >  Open Space Technology
> >
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