Number of Handshakes
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This Demonstration shows the total number of handshakes (pairwise connections) among a group of people. The 
person adds 
connections, the number of people already in the group. So if 
is the number of connections between 
people, 
and 
.
Contributed by: Bob Hanlon (March 2011)
Suggested by: Matthew Hoek and Daniel Lichtblau
Suggestions by: Daniel Lichtblau and Sjoerd C. de Vries
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
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Published: March 7 2011
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