Friday, November 16, 2007

River Rat's Theory of Exponential Noise

Officemate and wizened Dad, River Rat, offers the following scientifically baseless theory:

When you have two kids, you have one line of communication between the two.
When you go to three kids, you have three lines of communication between the brood.
Thus, you increase the number of kids by 50%, but you triple the noise!

1 comment:

Unknown said...

I did a little algebra, and for 4 or more kids, the number of interkid communication lines follows:

(n^2-1)/2.