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> As more people are added to a project, the complexity of communication increases exponentially. Doesn't it increase by n^2? as per the picture with the grap
by ewst 3y ago
> As more people are added to a project, the complexity of communication increases exponentially.
Doesn't it increase by n^2? as per the picture with the graphs?
- supernewton 3y agoLaypeople use "exponential" to mean "superlinear". It's fine, probably.
- not2b 3y agoBrooks wrote that it was quadratic, so that seems to be an error in the summary.
- dragonwriter 3y agoLaypeople use “exponential” to mean “fast”, with what “fast" means varying by speaker and context.