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		emilfihlman on May 14, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Going Critical Why is the percolation threshold lower than 25% for a square lattice?

croddin on May 14, 2019 [–]

Each node has a link to itself and can re-infect itself on the next iteration, so a node has 5 different nodes it can infect in the next iteration rather than 4.

emilfihlman on May 16, 2019 | [–]

Hmm, so is the critical rate 22,5 then for between 20 and 25.

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