About June 2007, I noticed that a network's mean path length, measured in steps, worked as a scale factor for the network. In effect, it could be used to measure the number of degrees of freedom, log(n) for a network if the base of the log was the mean path length and if the network is isotropic. If the network is not isotropic then the number of degrees of freedom is equivalent to C log (n) with C the network's clustering coefficient and the base of the log, again, the mean path length. Apart from my use of this observation in articles on arxiv and RG, I have not read any articles using the mean path length as a scale factor? Is it a known thing?

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