Six degrees of separation

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Six degrees of separation.

Six degrees of separation is the idea that all living things and everything else in the world are six or fewer steps away from each other so that a chain of "a friend of a friend" statements can be made to connect any two people in a maximum of six steps. It was originally set out by Frigyes Karinthy in 1929 and popularized in an eponymous 1990 play written by John Guare.

Six Degrees of Separation: Why It Is a Small World After All by Neuroscience News

A new study reveals how small world networks can occur within more complex structures.

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Neuroscience News | October 21, 2017 at 11:40 am | Tags: complex networks, dynamic networks, math models, modulatiry, six degrees of seperation, small world, small world networks | URL: http://wp.me/p4sXNK-bxF

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