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-'''The [[JC]]’s [[first law of worker entropy]]''' (also known as the [[meeting paradox]]) states that:
+'''The [[JC]]’s [[first law of worker entropy]]''' (also known as the “[[meeting paradox]]”):
-:(i) The probability of a meeting<ref>At any rate, a meeting containing more than one person — a single person meeting, of course, ought not, in a sensible mind count, at least since [[Descartes|René Descartes]] — [[occursum ergo es]] — proved a meeting in any meaningful sense. It is like the prime number of meetings.</ref> starting on time can never be 100%;
+:(i) The probability of a meeting starting on time can never be 100%;
 :(ii) As the  number of scheduled participants increases, that probability tends to zero.
-:(iii) The more participants there are the more retarded the starting time (and content) of the meeting will be; <br>
+:(iii) The more participants there are the more retarded the starting time (and content) of the meeting will be. <br>
-As a consequence of these axioms there is an upper bound on the total number of people possible in a viable meeting of a given duration.
+This is true of any meeting containing more than one person. (A single-person meeting, of course, ought not, in a sensible mind, count, at least since {{otto}} asserted its incoherence through his maxim “[[convenimus ergo es]]”).<br>