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A comment on Price's Law: Why Only a Few People Generate Half of the Results.

Re:Price's Law: Why Only a Few People Generate Half of the R... by rdlecler1 on Sunday June 03, 2018 @04:14PM (#17221529)
Taking the idea that the output is the square root of the number of participants, suggests that three companies of 10 people (3 * sqrt(10) ~= 10) do the same work as one company of 100 people (1 * sqrt(100) = 10). Not unreasonable but it does suggest optimal organizational sizes and the emergence of modular design.
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Re:Price's Law: Why Only a Few People Generate Half of the R... by uxhack on Sunday June 03, 2018 @05:25PM (#17222238)
A company of 10 will produce an output of 6 if 3 people produce 50% of the work. A company of 100 will produce the output of 20 if 10 people do 50% of the production. So a company of 100 will produce 3 times more than a company of 10.
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