nemesis <nam### [at] gmail com> wrote:
> Yep. The title reminds me of an Orson Welles quote, something about how
> he was just 3 handshakes away from Napoleon Bonaparte: when he was a
> child he handshaked with some old man who knew another guy in the past
> who has met Napoleon many decades earlier. :)
I think this touches the idea of "six degrees of separation". The most
famous trivia game related to that is this one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon
A famous one among Go players is this one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shusaku_number
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- Warp
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