"Sean" == <sgorman1@gmu.edu> writes:
Sean> it says nothing about what will happen to the other 91.7% of Sean> nodes. Considering that 55% of the remaining nodes are Sean> trees, they will be saying "Houston we have a problem" well Sean> before 25%. The supposition would be that the remaining nodes are evenly distributed around the core so the percentage of nodes outside of the core without connectivity should be roughly the same as the percentage of nodes removed from the core. At least until the core goes non-linear... >> It would be interesting to see what outdegree looks like as a >> function of rank -- in the paper they give only the maximum and >> average (geo. mean) outdegrees. Is there also a critical point >> 25% of the way through the ranking? Probably not or one would >> expect they'd have mentioned it... It turns out that this is buried in one of the graphs (fig. 6) and does not appear to have any special properties 25% of the way through. It does have an inflection point around the 1000th node or so (2.5%). -w