A hedge fund is intending to buy 50 computers and connect each of them with eight other computers with a cable. Please do not ask why they need to do that, that is a top secret never to be made public! A friend of mine said that it’s related to some cryptocurrency research, but you should immediately forget all I just told you; it would be unwise to spread rumours! Let’s go back to the mathematical part of this story and stop the unrelated talk. The question is, how many cables do they need?