The more ideas and possible mixes and matches a law department manager has available to choose from, the more …
We know intuitively that as the number of choices increase, the number of possible combinations of those choices increases even faster. The mathematics that makes explicit how those combinations increase falls into the field of permutations and combinatorial functions. My latest column for InsideCounsel, published February 13, 2012, gives examples of combinatorics for legal departments.