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Re:Show HN: Six Degrees of Wikipedia by AstralStorm on Monday February 26, 2018 @03:36PM (#16468758)
Not too expensive, you can use parallel IDDFS to get a good approximation quickly. (Especially if you pick a good heuristic to follow links.)

Challenging part is keeping track of already visited pages to break cycles - some variant of a Bloom filter will help.

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