What's The Common Thing Among These Graphs?

What's The Common Thing Among These Graphs?
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Mathematicians spend years studying graph theory only to realize these 15 different network diagrams are actually identical under isomorphism. The punchline is devastatingly accurate for anyone who's ever stared at a whiteboard for hours before realizing two seemingly different mathematical structures are fundamentally the same thing. It's that special moment of clarity when you've wasted an entire afternoon proving something that was obvious from the beginning. Graduate students worldwide just felt a collective shudder.

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