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"Clicking on the first lowercase link in the main text of a Wikipedia article, and then repeating the process for subsequent articles, usually eventually gets one to the Philosophy article. As of May 26, 2011, 94.52% of all articles in Wikipedia lead eventually to the article Philosophy."

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Neat. Using the x86 Wikipedia article as a starting point, and clicking the first lower case link repeatedly, it took me 45 clicks to get to the Philosophy.

Unfortunately, from the 'Getting to Philosophy' article, I quickly wound up in a loop between 'Anchor text' and 'Hyperlink'

Hm, using the site linked in the article[1] x86 seems to be only 10 hops away from Philosophy.

[1]: http://xefer.com/wikipedia

Ah, yep, you're right, it's only 10 hops. Must have done something wrong when I tried it the first time.

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