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Re:Can We Please Kill This Meme Now by lsb on Sunday August 02, 2009 @07:00PM (#738230)
There's quite a bit of serendipity on Wikipedia: http://xkcd.com/214/

Almost all Wikipedia articles are within 4 hops of each other. You can open as many tabs as you like, but now you have the choice.

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Re:Can We Please Kill This Meme Now by paulgb on Sunday August 02, 2009 @07:05PM (#738236)
> Almost all Wikipedia articles are within 4 hops of each other.

Neat fact, do you happen to have the source? I'd be interested in hearing more on this.

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Re:Can We Please Kill This Meme Now by joeyo on Sunday August 02, 2009 @09:51PM (#738422)
I couldn't find anything definitive, but here are some papers on the topic:

http://mint.typepad.com/mypapers/pp017-lizorkin.pdf

http://www.fran.it/articles/wikimania_bellomi_bonato.pdf

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?tp=arnumber=4...

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