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Main Author: Standish, Russell K.
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.16327
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  • In \cite{Standish25c}, I explored the connection between star complexity and information based complexity. Because of the numerical difficulty in computing star complexity, I introduced a proxy measure that is an upper bound to star complexity, and showed a strong albeit non-linear relationship between the measures. In this paper, I introduce a tighter upper bound, by exploiting the well-known ABC package used to optimise logic circuits. In testing the new measure, I found that I had been computing the {\em formula complexity} variant of star complexity, rather than the tighter {\em circuit complexity} variant. Since Jukna clearly states the connection between star complexity and circuit complexity, I have modified the graph walking algorithm to capture circuit complexity rather than formula complexity. With this new ABC-based measure, applied to a set of 1000 500 vertex Erdös-Renyi graphs, a more linear relationship between star complexity and information based complexity is found.