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a_t48
on Sept 13, 2018
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Why are conversations limited to about four people...
Shouldn't that be 6x5=30? Unless you count everyone's relationship with themselves.... [this also aligns with the 5+4+3+2+1 version, it's just n*(n-1)/2 ]
anonytrary
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He probably meant to say 30, since he did set the diagonal elements to zero in his N = 2 answer (otherwise he would have said 4).
IncRnd
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