Can Topology Prevent Another Financial Crash?

Re:Can Topology Prevent Another Financial Crash? by pfarnsworth on Friday July 01, 2016 @06:57PM (#12020297)

It's actually not Kevin Bacon but rather every single human is connected by 6 degrees of separation or less. Although the idea sounds crazy, it might make sense. I'm 3 degrees away from Obama, which means everyone I know is at most 4 degrees away from him, etc.

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Re:Can Topology Prevent Another Financial Crash? by carl_corder on Friday July 01, 2016 @07:48PM (#12020529)

Another interesting and related topic are Ramsey numbers. R(3,3)=6 which means:

"In any party of six people either at least three of them are (pairwise) mutual strangers or at least three of them are (pairwise) mutual acquaintances"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theorem_on_friends_and_strange...

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Re:Can Topology Prevent Another Financial Crash? by drjesusphd on Saturday July 02, 2016 @04:56PM (#12023760)

This sounds like a tautology. What am I missing?

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Re:Can Topology Prevent Another Financial Crash? by aji on Friday July 01, 2016 @07:16PM (#12020379)

I guess now I'm 4 degrees away, since I can just send you a message if I need help delivering something to Obama!

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Re:Can Topology Prevent Another Financial Crash? by j2kun on Friday July 01, 2016 @07:33PM (#12020454)

IIRC the average is close to 6, the max is actually more like 12.

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