Re: Newcomb number

Lars Marius Garshol <[email protected]> Tue, 5 Oct 2010 14:58:34 +0200

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* Patrick Durusau
> 
> I suspect the answer here is who do you consider as "introducing" you to
> topic maps? Perhaps that should allow for more than one person.
> 
> The only difficulty then is if they don't have the same Newcomb number.

Actually, they still do. If "introducing" allows multiple people, in the same way that co-authorship does, the number is defined the same way. It's just the number of steps to mr. Newcomb via the shortest path. The existence of multiple paths is not a problem.

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