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Originally Posted by Ocean Girl  ... It is amazing what two can get done compared to just one, I bet our engineers could get an equation together  ... |
The phenomenon where the whole is greater than the arithmetic sum of the parts, is sometimes called synergy.
Various square laws (why are they usually “negatively” stated as inverse-square laws?) describe these synergistic relationships mathematically.
If a quantity “a” varies as the square of a quantity “b”, if, when “b” changes, “a” changes by the square of that ratio.
Thus, if “b” changes by a factor of 2, then “a” will change by a factor of 2² = 4.