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Dollars 
Cost 
Component 
(6) 
— 
, 100 
Yal Centralization 
Dollar 
Cost 
Component | 
fe) 
per 
Standard 
Unit of 
Information 
Fig. 6 
— 
. . . 700 
Degree of Spatial Centralization 
of information to degree of spatial centralization be depicted 
by a curve such as that of Figure 6 (where the y intercept is 
taken to be terminal costs per standard unit of informa- 
tion)? (¥) Can the product of (1) the function underlying the 
curve of Figure 6 and (2) the function relating the total volume 
of information collected to degree of spatial decentralization 
(*¥) Can it be posited that on the average the higher the degree of spa- 
rial centralization, the longer the distance of transmission of a standard unit 
of information? We should recognize of course that certain units of ‘in- 
formation, for example, that generated at the single, 1st-order node, need 
to be transmitted less with increase in degree of spatial centralization. 
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