Joining up the dots

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This is used to illustrate the issue of retrospective coherence in complexity [1]

Number of Dots Number of Links
Number of Possible Patterns
4 6 64
10 45 35,184,372,088,832 or 35.2 trillion
12 66 73,786,976,294,838,200,000 or 73.8 quintillion
  1. "Connecting the Dots": from data processing to pattern processing Max Boisot