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Averill Number
An Averill Number is a measurement of system complexity.

Often times while developing new systems various competing architectures are offered for consideration. Among other measurements, the Averill Number or "AN" may be utilized to quickly provide some objective measurement of complexity.

The Averill Number is basically a resultant score of a design choice when using the weighted Pugh matrix Pugh_method method of descision making. This is also known as multi-criterion decision analysis MCDA.

See also Stigler's_law.