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Two Workers Are Quadratically Better Than One
Frederick Brooks would disagree.
Jtsummers
on Nov 6, 2020
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Likely he wouldn’t. The premise here is of a task that
can
be done in parallel here by multiple workers. Brooks’ comment (9 women can’t make a baby in 1 month) is about a task that cannot be divided among workers.
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