果然我大哲學(xué)才是永恒的
What is the most useless fact you know?
你知道的最沒用的事情是什么？
原文地址：https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-most-useless-fact-you-know
**Clicking on the first link in the main text of a Wikipedia article, and then repeating the process for subsequent articles, usually eventually gets you to the Philosophy article. **
點(diǎn)擊維基百科的文章正文的第一個(gè)鏈接耐齐，然后再接下來跳轉(zhuǎn)的文章中重復(fù)這一過程柑晒，最后通常都會(huì)轉(zhuǎn)到關(guān)于哲學(xué)的條目中魄缚。
As of May 26, 2011, 94.52% of all articles in Wikipedia lead eventually to the article Philosophy.The remaining 100,000 (approx.) links to an article with no wiki links or with links to pages that do not exist, or get stuck in loops (all three are equally probable). The median link chain length to reach philosophy is 23.
截止 2011 年 5 月 26 日沾凄，維基百科中 94.52% 的條目最終都會(huì)跳轉(zhuǎn)到關(guān)于哲學(xué)的文章。剩下的 100000 （大約）個(gè)鏈接會(huì)跳轉(zhuǎn)到?jīng)]有相關(guān)條目或者還沒有創(chuàng)建的頁面中鳄抒，也可能進(jìn)入一個(gè)死循環(huán)（所有三種可能性都是產(chǎn)不多的）闯捎。在這個(gè)鏈條中到達(dá)哲學(xué)類條目的的平均值是 23 個(gè)。
Following the chain consists of:
- Clicking on the first non-parenthesized, non-italicized link
- Ignoring external links, links to the current page, or red links
- Stopping when reaching "Philosophy", a page with no links or a page that does not exist, or when a loop occurs
依照以下的規(guī)則試驗(yàn)：
- 點(diǎn)擊第一個(gè)未添加括號(hào)嘁酿，不是斜體的鏈接
- 無視外部的隙券，頁內(nèi)跳轉(zhuǎn)，以及紅色的鏈接
- 在跳轉(zhuǎn)到“哲學(xué)類”的闹司，沒有鏈接的或者不存在的頁面時(shí)停止
Nice way indeed to kill time.
真是個(gè)消磨時(shí)間的好辦法娱仔。
There have been some theories on this phenomenon, with the most prevalent being the tendency for Wikipedia pages to move up a "classification chain." According to this theory, the Wikipedia Manual of Style guidelines on how to write the lead section of an article recommend that the article should start by defining the topic of the article, so that the first link of each page will naturally take the reader into a broader subject, eventually ending in wide-reaching pages such as Mathematics, Science, Language, and of course, Philosophy, nicknamed the "mother of all sciences".
對(duì)這種現(xiàn)象有幾種理論解釋，最流行的一種是維基百科的條目傾向于提高“分類鏈”游桩∩龋基于這種理論，維基百科在關(guān)于頁面布局的樣式編寫指南中借卧，推薦在文章的開頭首先應(yīng)定義此篇文章的中心盹憎，因此文章的第一個(gè)鏈接便會(huì)將讀者引入到一個(gè)更加寬泛的主題中，最終歸于數(shù)學(xué)铐刘、科學(xué)陪每、語言當(dāng)然還有哲學(xué)這些被稱之為“科學(xué)之母”的大條目中。
