(03-24-2021, 01:14 AM)Gointocarlton date Wrote:As the Hells Angels always say, "Three can keep a secret if two are dead".How many dead are there from 9/11, about 3,000?
Can you imagine the complexity of that social network, the number of nodes? There is a whole field of maths dedicated to this sort of question, well above my paygrade. Some of you may be aware of the classic travelling sales problem, working out the shortest route to visit a number of towns, just 20 or 30 towns becomes incalculable for anything but giant supercomputers to solve, 3000 nodes is probably way way beyond anything we have on earth.
For those interested, here is a little link to the TSP.
Quote:The problem can be solved by analyzing every round-trip route to determine the shortest one. However, as the number of destinations increases, the corresponding number of roundtrips surpasses the capabilities of even the fastest computers. With 10 destinations, there can be more than 300,000 roundtrip permutations and combinations. With 15 destinations, the number of possible routes could exceed 87 billion.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"