In message 2016030313144122058-email@domaincom, at 13:14:41 on Thu, 3
Mar 2016, eastender remarked:
"The Paris system has 78 such choice points. The New York subway, the
most complex in the world, has 161. New York's system is so sprawling
and interconnected,*Barthelemy and colleagues*Riccardo Gallotti*and
Mason Porter concluded in a recent analysis, that it approaches the
maximum complexity our human minds can handle, the equivalent of about
8 bits of information."

What a strange way to describe it. What he really means is solving
problems with more than 256 nodes.

I reject the theory completely, not just because people do in fact cope
with much more (how many destinations and junctions comprise "The
Knowledge" for example), but because when you look at something such as
a complex tube map you immediately rule out up to 90% of the map as
being "out of bounds".

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...nsit-systems-a
re-growing-too-complex-for-the-human-mind/

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Roland Perry