Search Engine PageRank

OK, there has been alot of hype and this and that about PageRanks.
While I am hatching my plan up, there is an explaination needed for the common person.

Qn: How many links are needed to Boost my pagerank?
Depends on What level are you on.

A new site is normally PageRank ZERO.
You will need a SEO friendly Sitemap installed.

So how it works?This is based on ALLStar’s theory.

From ZERO(or One normally) to PageRank Five (PR5)
you will need 17,000 Reciprocal PR1 links,
PR6:93,000 ; PR7 : 510,000 and 2.9Million for a PR8.
At $5 a link, it costs a bomb!

From Base of Pagerank TWO:
A PR2 Reciprocal link value to boost to 5;6;7;8.
3,100 ;17,000 ;93,000;510,000 links

More of this are in the post by All Star.
I will do a derivitive analysis later on.