Jaime wrote: > Hi Chris!!! > > Congratulations for a job well done. I always face > claims about the small number of participants for > prospective OS mettings in Bolivia. Reed's Law will be > an excellent argument to show possibilities. However, > I can not replicate the formula in order to confirm > your findings for 12 people and 4083 possible groups. > Could you please explain in a more detailed way the > formula for me? >
The way I figure it, it's 212-12-1. So that's 2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2 which is 4096. 4096-12=4084. 4084-1=4083. That's how I did it anyway. That gives you all the possible combinations of groups of more than two. Of course in OST, often groups of one meet, so that number is a little low. I'm no math genius, but any way you cut it, the numbers are pretty impressive. A group of 32 yields a number close to 22 billion, which is something like four times the population of the earth. Not that you can make any comparisons directly, but as a way of illustrating the scale of possibilities, to be able to walk around a room of 32 and say "within this circle, the number ways of organizing ourselves dwarf the population of humans on the earth" is a pretty compelling introduction to the potential of potential. I'm going try the line this weekend, with a group of 32. > By the way, in the battle or sluggish against GM > (genetically modified) seeds and organisms, your > finding is very important. > I thought so too. The world is a strange place. > Warm regards from Bolivia to everybody > Right back at you. Chris --- CHRIS CORRIGAN Consultation - Facilitation Open Space Technology Bowen Island, BC, Canada http://www.chriscorrigan.com [email protected] * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
