Show HN: Most Wikipedia articles lead to the same loop
From a mathematical perspective, this is actually not that surprising.<p>Think of the act of clicking the first link in the Wikipedia article as a function that takes in the page you're on and outputs another page.<p>If you call this function on itself over and over again (ie use the output of one step as in the input of the next step), you will eventually enter a loop. The proof of this is simple: there are only a finite number of Wikipedia articles, therefore you must eventually reach an article you've seen before. (This is the same reason systems with a finite number of states cannot be chaotic.)<p>Since it's necessarily true that all articles will eventually reach a loop when you iteratively click the first link, we have to ask: how unusual is it that they usually reach the SAME loop?