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Blog : The Distance between “Zero” and “Hero”: Exploring Synonym Chains with Mathematica. March 17, 2011 — Jon McLoone, International Business & Strategic Development There is an old word game where you try to get from one word to another through connections with other words.

Blog : The Distance between “Zero” and “Hero”: Exploring Synonym Chains with Mathematica

For example, you might get from “cold” to “stationary” via the word “frozen”, since “cold” and “frozen” are synonyms and “frozen” and “stationary” are synonyms, albeit for different meanings of the word “frozen”. I thought of this game when I started to learn the new graph theory functions in Mathematica 8.

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