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Erdős–Bacon

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From the Erdős–Bacon number wikipedia page:

An individual’s ErdÅ‘s–Bacon number is the sum of one’s ErdÅ‘s number—which measures the “collaborative distance” in authoring mathematical papers between that individual and Hungarian mathematician Paul ErdÅ‘s—and one’s Bacon number—which represents the number of links, through roles in films, by which the individual is separated from actor Kevin Bacon.

Danica McKellar, Winnie Cooper from The Wonder Years, has an Erdős–Bacon number of 6.

  10/8/07 9:44 pm




3 Comments »


awesome

- jpegmess — 10/8/07 @ 10:01 pm


“McKellar also provides free online math tutoring for her fans at her official internet website.”

- jww — 10/8/07 @ 10:49 pm


o i adore “erdÅ‘s” – i can’t stop pronouncing it in my head every time i see it (eerrrdosshhh errdosssshhh), and i love the unusual “o” and how sometimes people use the wrong letter (an umlaut instead of the little ticky tittles), and how a lot of fonts don’t really know how to handle the letter so they substitute another letter and it looks a little odd…and then i start pronouncing it again.

- britta — 10/8/07 @ 11:53 pm




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