Re:Ends, Means, and Antitrust
by xiaoma on Thursday June 29, 2017 @01:54AM
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>"the web's access pattern would be exponential and overwhelming."
It might well be overwhelming, but it wouldn't be exponential. There are a maximum of N choose 2 connections between N nodes. That number only grows quadratically as N increases, while exponential growth would outstrip quadratic, cubic or any polynomial growth for large values of N.
It might well be overwhelming, but it wouldn't be exponential. There are a maximum of N choose 2 connections between N nodes. That number only grows quadratically as N increases, while exponential growth would outstrip quadratic, cubic or any polynomial growth for large values of N.