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Hah. The hypothesis is false, but the script already has that covered via loop detection... nice :) panhard Auverland Panhard uh oh... found a loop

• shrikant 15y ago
  "Beans" is 28 steps..
• iopuy 15y ago
  30 for "Howard Hughes" uh oh... found a loop mathematics -> quantity -> property_(philosophy) -> modern_philosophy -> western_europe -> europe -> continent -> landmass -> landform -> earth_sciences -> science -> knowledge -> fact -> information -> finite_set -> mathematics.
  • shadowpwner 15y ago
    Its supposed to stop at philosophy..
  • adsr 15y ago
    Makes sense for mathematics to be a loop since it's a self contained system.
  • kd0amg 15y ago
    modern_philosophy -> western_europe Looks like "philosophy" is the first link on the "Modern philosophy" page (and was last week when I first tried this). http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Modern_philosophy&oldid=430354556 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Modern_philosophy&...
    • ceejayoz 15y ago
      I wonder how many Wikipedia edits this week are going to be to undo loops.
      • kd0amg 15y ago
        Me, I'd be more inclined to create them >_>
  • mikeleeorg 15y ago
    Hmm. I just tried "Howard Hughes" and got only 15 steps. Business_magnate -> Philanthropy -> Ancient_Greece -> History_of_Greece -> Greeks -> Nation -> Sovereign_state -> -> State_(polity) -> Social_sciences -> Field_of_study -> Academia -> Community -> Interacting -> Action_(philosophy) -> Philosophy Has the script been tweaked already?
  • wtracy 15y ago
    "Sushi" leads to a loop, too: sushi japanese_cuisine japan japanese_language arabic_numerals symbol numeral_system mathematical_notation uh oh... found a loop
• caf 15y ago
  F-111 is 45 steps.
  • alanfalcon 15y ago
    Now 32. Playing games with an ever evolving game board is... interesting.
    • nielsbom 15y ago
      Now 36
• sili 15y ago
  If it finds a loop, can't it go and explore other paths?
  • sophacles 15y ago
    Please spend 38.9 seconds trying to understand the very very very simple algorithm that says: Follow the first link that... It doesn't say there are alternate choices. If you went with a different link than the first, it would no longer be the first.
    • Someone 15y ago
      Well, it is Wikipedia. The program _could_ go to Wikipedia, edit a page in the loop, save, and continue :-)
• zephjc 15y ago
  found another loop, on my first try nonetheless: Genghis_Khan -> Mongolian_language -> Mongolia -> Mongolian_language
  • vrdabomb5717 15y ago
    There's no loop there: Genghis Khan -> Borjigin -> Clan -> People -> Human -> Taxonomy -> Science -> Knowledge -> Fact -> Information -> Sequence -> Mathematics -> Quantity -> Property (philosophy) -> Modern Philosophy -> Philosophy Mongolian language is in parentheses, so you don't end up in the infinite loop. So far, the only loop I can see is Panhard, though I'm sure someone will edit the page so that no longer happens. I think the stub pages have a far better chance of defying this law than any other page, though, so it's probably best to start there if you want to find more loops.
    • rflrob 15y ago
      Font loops, at least according to the rules (ignoring italics and parens).
• mikeleeorg 15y ago
  Heh. "Philosophy": uh oh... found a loop philosophy -> existence -> sense -> organism -> biology -> natural_science -> science -> knowledge -> fact -> information -> sequence -> mathematics -> quantity -> property_(philosophy) -> modern_philosophy -> philosophy.
• danielrhodes 15y ago
  I found a loop for Jersey Shore. I guess that sounds about right though.