Six degrees of separation
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title:
Six degrees of separation
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Six degrees of separation is the idea that all people are six or fewer social connections away from each other. As a result, a chain of "friend of a friend" statements can be made to connect any two people in a maximum of six steps. It is also known as the six handshakes rule. The concept was originally set out in a 1929 short story by Frigyes Karinthy, in which a group of people play a game of trying to connect any person in the world to themselves by a chain of five others. It was popularized
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Concept of social inter-connectedness of all people
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation
date created:
2002-08-20T08:09:08Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T09:54:24Z
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