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      We’re already there. I know of 2 California’s, an Indiana, and countless Washington’s that are not the states.

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        Alabama, New York
        Montana, Wisconsin
        Alaska, New Mexico
        New Mexico, Maryland
        Texas, New York
        New York, Texas
        Oregon, Iowa
        Virgina, Minnesota

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          Alaska, New Mexico
          New Mexico, Maryland

          Seeing this, I now wonder what’s the longest possible chain of “State1-named city, State2; State2-named city…” you can create.

          Someone should ping Matt Parker or someone who knows how to code such a lookup program :)

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            That sounds right up his alley actually.
            Might have to avoid the Texas / New York loop though.

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            No need for Matt Parker, just anyone who can program and has a textbook covering graph algorithms. Actually the graph is probably small enough it would be easier to do it by hand than to code a solution.

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        I had to do a double take a few times on my news feed as weird things like wild fires and air plane crashes were being reported in Ontario … California!