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Metcalfe's law

Metcalfe's law states that the value of a communications system grows as the square of the number of users of the system.

First formulated by Robert Metcalfe[?] in regard to Ethernet, Metcalfe's law explains many of the network effects of communications technologies and networks such as the Internet and World Wide Web.

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