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According to Price's Law 50% of the work is done by the square root of the number of people. As the amount of stuff you need to do grows linearly, the amount o
by Consultant32452 7y ago
According to Price's Law 50% of the work is done by the square root of the number of people. As the amount of stuff you need to do grows linearly, the amount of people you need to do that stuff grows exponentially.
- lultimouomo 7y agoI think you mean quadratically.
- jmeister 7y agoIn popular usage of the term, anything above linear is “exponential” unfortunately.
- johnvanommen 7y agoPrice's Law is great. I think it provides insight into so much of how the world works. I am curious to see how Red Hat performs now that it's been swallowed up by IBM.
- probe 7y agoIs there any empirical evidence of Price’s law? Would love to see it. I could only find this study (admittedly from 1986) that disproved the original hypothesis - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0306457388900490 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/030645...