You are the business analyst for a large project for your organization. Your project has 65 stakeholders and this will greatly increase the complexity of the communication in this project. To demonstr

Applying the formula n(n-1)/2 with n=65 gives 65 x 64 / 2 = 2080. This formula counts every unique pair of stakeholders who may need to communicate, illustrating how communication complexity grows exponentially as stakeholder count increases.

4160 results from computing 65 x 64 without dividing by 2, which double-counts every communication pair and overstates the number of unique channels.

65 is simply the total number of stakeholders and does not represent any communication channel count between them.

4225 equals 65 squared (65 x 65), which incorrectly includes self-communication for each stakeholder and double-counts all bidirectional pairs.