When a "law" isn't a law at all

Bob Briscoe; Andrew Odlyzko; Benjamin Tilly

doi:10.1007/s12146-010-0040-1

When a "law" isn't a law at all

Bob Briscoe
, Andrew Odlyzko
, Benjamin Tilly

School of Mathematics

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Of all the popular ideas of the Internet boom, one of the most dangerously influential was Metcalfe's law. Simply put, it states that the value of a communications network is proportional to the square of the number of its users.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	146-149
Number of pages	4
Journal	International Commerce Review
Volume	8
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s12146-010-0040-1
State	Published - Dec 2009

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