The link on this blog takes you to a rather wonderful site. The guy there collects numeric information. It might sound boring at first but, in truth, much of our lives is controlled by numbers, as a recent TV programme has illustrated very well. Although the research in this blog is not new (2001) I presume in his eternal search for all things numeric he has only just got around to it.
The basic point is that even though thousands of people are involved in an enterprise they are related to each other at only 6 removes. This has been known since 1929 but the guy in 2001 used the internet to prove it, which of course makes it proven beyond all doubt.
Pierre
Source: http://numericlife.blogspot.com/2006/08/six-degree-of-separation.html
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