“On the ideal (un)conference every attendee meets and talks to every other participant and get connected. I am aiming sg like this with BBCamp. :)”
July 16 at 12:09 pm
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how many handshakes if there are 100 campers? - Attila Csordas
4950? - Pawel Szczesny
1 handshake of X & Y = counted 1 time - Attila Csordas
and if I want a real approximation of 'new handshakes' just for the people who are not familiar with each other, we have to take the number of all handshakes minus the number of handshakes made by people already acquainted with each other - Attila Csordas
I also get 4950. (Every person shakes the hand of 99 others, but divided by two because it's one handshake per two people.) - Eva
I like empirical tests: what if we actually measure the number of new handshakes at BBCamp? - Attila Csordas
X - 99 handshakes, Y - 98 handshakes, Z - 97 handshakes... (cut out due to Friendfeed comment limit) ... XXX - 2 handshakes, YYY - 1 handshake. 4950 together or my Perl installation is broken. - Pawel Szczesny
yeap (n*(n-1))/2 - Pedro Beltrao