I’m currently an intern at Bordeaux I, working on the security of sensor networks.

Today, I wondered how many articles I read in the last 3 months.

$ find papers/ | wc -l
42

The result was a bit puzzling and hence, I found the following question could be a great candidate to the ultimate question:

How many articles one should read before writing a research article?

If you don’t understand what I’m talking about, google is your friend.