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do all first links on wikipedia lead to philosophy?

August 13, 2011 at 03:00 PM | categories: graph, wikipedia | View Comments

(update: like all interesting things it turns out someone else had already done this :D)a recent xkcd posed the idea...wikipedia trivia: if you take any article, click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics, and then repeat, you will eventually end up at Philosophy.this raises a number of questionsQ: though i wouldn't be surprised if it's true for most articles it can't be true for all articles. can it?Q: what's the distribution of distances (measured in "number of clicks away") from 'Philosophy'?Q: by this same measure what's the furthest article from 'Philosophy'?Q: are there...
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