It's flawed. Google claims a Bacon number of > 1 for Johnny Carson, Rosie O'Donnell and Jay Leno, but he sat for interviews on their talk shows. Also, the results for some musicians include recorded-footage appearances in movies where they had no interaction with the cast.
Google's "Bacon number" search
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Re: Google's "Bacon number" search
#62Hm, it seems like basically any actor you can think of off the top of your head has a Bacon number of 2 (or less). I guess that makes sense. Anyone have some interesting examples of 4+ bacon numbers??
Best I found was Shirley Temple @ 3
Re: Google's "Bacon number" search
#63Hm, it seems like basically any actor you can think of off the top of your head has a Bacon number of 2 (or less). I guess that makes sense. Anyone have some interesting examples of 4+ bacon numbers??
Justin Bieber (4) - admittedly an edge case, but a popular candidate without close ties (yet). It also includes the "classical baby i ' m grown up now the poetry show" link, with which I wasn't previously familiar.
Justin Bieber is actually a 2. http://oracleofbacon.org/cgi-bin/movielinks?a=Kevin+Bacon...
Re: Google's "Bacon number" search
#64Hm, it seems like basically any actor you can think of off the top of your head has a Bacon number of 2 (or less). I guess that makes sense. Anyone have some interesting examples of 4+ bacon numbers??
Spoiler alert
The highest I can find after some research is a 7. If you want to see it, Rot-13 this: Jvyyvnz Ehshf Funsgre
Edit: I promise this isn't a Rick Roll.
Re: Google's "Bacon number" search
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
Probably because there's no easily accessible data store like IMDB for famous mathematicians or computer scientists.
Actually there is an automated Erdos number search here: http://www.ams.org/mathscinet/collaborationDistance.html using the MathSciNet reference database. Unfortuately, it is only accessible to MathSciNet subscribers, so basically on all university campuses or libraries. My Erdos number is no higher than 5 :-).
Hm. My old professor has an Erdős number of 3. I should see about authoring a paper with him…
Re: Google's "Bacon number" search
#66I have an Erdös number of the first kind of 2, and an Erdös number of the second kind of at most 3. I'm working on my Bacon number. So far I've appeared on television with: Carol Vorderman, Gareth Jones, Angela Rippon, Fred Dineage, and several others that I need to track down, but are even less well known.
My challenge is working out who I have been with that might have been in a film.
Re: Google's "Bacon number" search
#67Apparently I have a Bacon Number of 4. I dated a girl who was an extra in "Footloose" (2011 remake), with Dennis Quaid, who was in "The Right Stuff" with Fred Ward, who was in "Tremors" with Mr. Bacon. Neat.
I do too, through actually appearing on film, even.
Ok, videotape. I was in a videotaped school play with someone who according to Oracle of Bacon has a Bacon number of 3. (Google doesn't work since he's pretty obscure, Oracle of Bacon uses all of IMDB I guess.)
Now I just need to find out if I can get an Erdos number out of any of my advisors.
Re: Google's "Bacon number" search
#68Hm, it seems like basically any actor you can think of off the top of your head has a Bacon number of 2 (or less). I guess that makes sense. Anyone have some interesting examples of 4+ bacon numbers??
David Mitchell of Peep Show fame has a Bacon number of 3.
Re: Google's "Bacon number" search
#69I'm disappointed it doesn't work with Erdös numbers. I thought Google was supposed to be a geeky company.
I would also like to see it work with Erdös -Bacon numbers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s%E2%80%93Bacon_number
erdos-bacon-sabbath
http://ebs.rosschurchley.com/
Re: Google's "Bacon number" search
#70I have an Erdös number of the first kind of 2, and an Erdös number of the second kind of at most 3. I'm working on my Bacon number. So far I've appeared on television with: Carol Vorderman, Gareth Jones, Angela Rippon, Fred Dineage, and several others that I need to track down, but are even less well known. My challenge is working out who I have been with that might have been in a film.
You were juggling on How2?