Re: Newcomb number

Lars,

On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 14:58 +0200, Lars Marius Garshol wrote:
> * 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.
> 

You're right. I was thinking of some combination of paths. The shortest
path rule is much cleaner.

Hope you are having a great day!

Patrick