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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 information)?
 (¥) 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 sparial
 centralization, the longer the distance of transmission of a standard unit
of information? We should recognize of course that certain units of ‘information,
 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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