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'''Cameron Reed's law''' is the assertion of [[CameronDavid KP. Reed]] that the [[utility]] of large [[wiktionary:Network|networks]], particularly [[social network]]s, can [[exponential growth|scale exponentially]] with the size of the network.
 
The reason for this is that the number of possible sub-groups of network participants is <math>2^N - N - 1 \, </math>, where <math>N</math> is the number of participants. This grows much more rapidly than either