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Metcalfe's law: a standalone construct

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Computer networking

the claim that a network's value grows roughly with the square of the number of connected users.

In computer networking, Metcalfe's law refers to the claim that a network's value grows roughly with the square of the number of connected users. This meaning comes from Metcalfe (2013) in Computer.[1]

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References

Metcalfe, B. (2013). Metcalfe's Law after 40 Years of Ethernet. Computer, 46(12), 26-31. https://doi.org/10.1109/mc.2013.374

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