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sophacles on May 26, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Inspired by XKCD:903, Wikipedia steps to philosoph...

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 on May 27, 2011 [–]

Well, it is Wikipedia. The program _could_ go to Wikipedia, edit a page in the loop, save, and continue :-)

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