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No, them's additive reciprocals for each member, with the denominator as a
variable for each member. You do the divisions first, pursuant to the "order of operations" rules.
The only multiplication occurs when there are
only two members (or resistors), where you can use the "product over the sum" technique.
1/Total = 1/RA + 1/RB note only two members (or resistors)
Is the same as
Total = (RA X RB) / (RA + RB) for
only two members (or resistors)
In the latter case, the result is not a reciprocal, but the actual value and results from algebraic manipulation of the first equation.
In any case, this is only a whimsical "Law." After all, the "Law" assumes that "Intelligence" is on a rational scale with a zero and which obeys the multiplication and division laws.
But you can't actually take two "intelligence scores" and multiply or divide them and make any sense out of the result.
So Terry's Law is only a humorous first attempt to apply mathematics to the observation that the intelligence of a group declines with the number of members of the group. Just as the total resistance goes down with the number of resistors added in parallel, regardless of values.
Maybe I should call it "Terry's Working Hypothesis of Group Intelligence" instead of a "Law."
> :D
Terry, 230RN
