{"id":508,"date":"2022-11-29T12:00:52","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T12:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/?p=508"},"modified":"2022-11-24T07:03:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T07:03:39","slug":"the-wisdom-of-salomon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/29\/the-wisdom-of-salomon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wisdom of Salomon"},"content":{"rendered":"

A while back, Quiara introduced the concept of a “Salomon number”<\/a>. She explains it better than I could, but basically, how many collaborations do you need to go through to get from any given constructor to the greatest of all mentors, Nancy Salomon? Quiara says: <\/p>\n

As much as I wish there was an easy way to tabulate your Salomon number, there isn’t a convenient applet that can do that<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think you know where we’re going with this!<\/p>\n

Check out crossworld’s answer to the Oracle of Bacon: the Wisdom of Salomon<\/a>. Type in the names of any two constructors and it will find the shortest link between them, if such a link exists. “But wait,” you say. “Alex, you had a puzzle with Brendan Quigley<\/a> and Brendan had a puzzle with Nancy<\/a>. Why isn’t your Salomon number 2?” Well, our data set isn’t 100% complete, because, um, that’s impossible. We’re powered by Saul Pwanson’s data set<\/a>, which is very good, but low on indies. I’m now a contributor to that data set, so hopefully we can get some more indies in there! Keep an eye out for updates going forward.<\/p>\n

Anyway, check it out, play around with it! If you find something wrong with it or have suggestions, please leave us a comment! We want to make this a fun and informative tool for everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A while back, Quiara introduced the concept of a “Salomon number”. She explains it better than I could, but basically, how many collaborations do you need to go through to get from any given constructor to the greatest of all mentors, Nancy Salomon? Quiara says: As much as I wish there was an easy way…<\/p>\n

Read More “The Wisdom of Salomon”<\/span> »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crossword-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions\/515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}