Reed’s Law

Wikipedia: “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.

“The reason for this is that the number of possible sub-groups of network participants is , 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, (which follows Metcalfe’s law).”

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