Link Surfing
Link surfing is the process of starting on one article on a website and clicking on various hyperlinks to eventually finish on a different (pre-determined) article. The English Wikipedia edition has 4,192,036 articles, so there are 4,192,036 possible starting points and 70064192035000000004,192,035 possible finishing points. This calculates to a total number of paths that would be impossible for a human being to calculate. Here is an example script written in Python that does this:
import math print math.factorial(4000325)Link surfing is also known as Wiki Racing or the Wiki Game.
Read more about Link Surfing: How To Link-surf
Famous quotes containing the word link:
“The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent and achievement. A biography seems irrelevant if it doesn’t discover the overlap between what the individual did and the life that made this possible. Without discovering that, you have shapeless happenings and gossip.”
—Leon Edel (b. 1907)