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It took me a while to find someone with a Bacon number>2: Prince
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Right. I tried finding out Erdös' Bacon number and nothing came up.
4, if an Erdos/Bacon number were a thing: P. Erdős and C. Pomerance published "On the largest prime factors of n and n +1" C. Pomerance and L. Adleman published "On Distinguishing Prime Numbers From Composite Numbers" L Adleman was a mathematical consultant in Sneakers with David Strathairn. David Strathairn and Kevin Bacon appeared in The River Wild. //edit, Randy Pausch actually appeared in a movie so I'm sure ther…
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Right. I tried finding out Erdös' Bacon number and nothing came up.
4, if an Erdos/Bacon number were a thing: P. Erdős and C. Pomerance published "On the largest prime factors of n and n +1" C. Pomerance and L. Adleman published "On Distinguishing Prime Numbers From Composite Numbers" L Adleman was a mathematical consultant in Sneakers with David Strathairn. David Strathairn and Kevin Bacon appeared in The River Wild. //edit, Randy Pausch actually appeared in a movie so I'm sure ther…
I'm disappointed it doesn't work with Erdös numbers. I thought Google was supposed to be a geeky company.
Probably because there's no easily accessible data store like IMDB for famous mathematicians or computer scientists.
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/computer_scientist/-/people/...
The more important piece thats missing is the one that Journals need to contribute - papers and author lists. ;)
I'm disappointed it doesn't work with Erdös numbers. I thought Google was supposed to be a geeky company.
Strange times we live in, when making an algorithm to calculate a random piece of trivia is no longer considered 'geeky' =)
It took me a while to find someone with a Bacon number>2: Prince
Well colour me shocked, I thought I would give Google a workout and try "Orson Welles"... turns out his number is a very run-of-the-mill 2