Otter's Journal: I have a Erdos number?!?

According to this comment, some anonymous ScienceBlogs blogger has a maximum Erdos number of six. Given his boasting of a one for his newly-invented Ricard Gibbs number, that gives me a maximum Erdos number of eight.

Now that I think about it, I probably have a shorter path than that ... and a minute of research finds that my Erdos number is actually three, with a combined Bacon-Erdos sum of -- whoah, six!!! That's actually worth working into conversation! (I'd forgotten that both numbers decrease over time, and two recent movies have given me two different Bacon threes.) I'm going to crosspost this there...

Incidentally, since when does anyone at ScienceBlogs discuss anything even this peripherally related to research? I thought it was all ranting against religion.

My Bacon number is 1

[The Fun Guy]

My Erdos number is either null or is impossibly high, since the chain from plant pathology and/or microbiology to mathematics has got to be pretty torturous.

My Bacon number, however is 1. I was an extra in "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" [imdb.com] in 1987, which had Kevin Bacon in a small role. (Of course, if you don't count uncredited cast and crew, then I'm out of luck.)

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[Otter]

(Of course, if you don't count uncredited cast and crew, then I'm out of luck.)

Me too, and therefore yes we do.

Erds-Bacon Number

[Real World Stuff]

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