Margalef noticed, as May did, that systems with many components would have weak relations between them, while systems that had few components would have tightly coupled relationships.

• 马格列夫注意到，就像迈说的，由许多成分组成的系统彼此之间的联系是弱的，而几乎没有组成部分的系统则可能会有紧密的联系。