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a multigraphs with geometric degree distribution ρ(k) = (1 − p)pk where p = 5/6, with N = 1000 nodes and M = 2500 edges, b Little Rock Lake food web95, c European airline route network96, d C. Elegans neural network97. See “Real networks” section for further details about the graphs.