<![endif] Educated Guess About Linkshare archives Nimrod Priell Imagine you’re a lumberjack, and you want to ship a whole forest to some far away place. You’d want to make sure you pack it as tight as you can. No, wait. Imagine you’re a software engineer and you want to transfer a huge forest (just a bunch of trees, or rooted undirected acyclic graphs, that is) across the Internet. How would you do it efficiently? Let’s make it clear that we’re looking for a way to transfer the tree structure. That is separate from transferring the contents of the nodes. If the trees you’re representing are, for example, social network influences (e.g tweets emitted from a certain person and retweeted by his followers, and theirs, and so on), you can keep the names of the persons involved, the tweet and the time it was retweeted at in a separate message. Then you map each node to a num...