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Reed's law is the assertion of David P. Reed that the utility of large networks, particularly social networks, can scale exponentially with the size of the network.[1]
The reason for this is that the number of possible sub-groups of network participants is 2N − N − 1, where N is the number of participants. This grows much more rapidly than either
- the number of participants, N, or
- the number of possible pair connections, N(N − 1)/2 (which follows Metcalfe's law).
so that even if the utility of groups available to be joined is very small on a per-group basis, eventually the network effect of potential group membership can dominate the overall economics of the system.
- ^ Hogg, Scott (October 5, 2013). "Understand and Obey the Laws of Networking: Ignorance of the laws of networking is no excuse". Network World. Retrieved November 2, 2017.