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0 pointsanonymouz12y ago0 comments

Well, you need to appear in at least one movie to have a finite Bacon number, and write at least one scientific paper to have a finite Erdős number. And through costars/coauthors you need to have some connection to Bacon/Erdős.

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throwaway197912y ago

Thanks for the clarification. I get it now. With respect to the paper, technically, it can't be a single author paper :-p

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0 pointsanonymouz12y ago0 comments

Well, you need to appear in at least one movie to have a finite Bacon number, and write at least one scientific paper to have a finite Erdős number. And through costars/coauthors you need to have some connection to Bacon/Erdős.

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throwaway197912y ago

Thanks for the clarification. I get it now. With respect to the paper, technically, it can't be a single author paper :-p

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