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What do you mean with "degree of separation". Could you elaborate?

• yitchelle 11y ago
  For example, it would be interesting to see if or how Linus Torvalds connected to Charles Babbage via the various relationships through the IT giants. If there are 4(as an example) people between them, their degree of separation is 4. It is similar to the Erdös number.
  • antonpirker 11y ago
    Ah, now I understand. This would be a really cool thing. With this data we could also create graphs of relationships and we also could find the Erdös of IT. But I think for me this is to much effort to create something like this (One would need to study all the resumes of the giants to find out their relationships and so on.) But if anyone wants to create something like this I more then willing to give them my list of giants.
  • bencoder 11y ago
    What would be the connection? Perhaps: Has contributed to the same software project
  • kedean 11y ago
    You need an activity to connect them, though. Erdos numbers are based on collaborative math publications. The problem here is that some are researches (you could do cs publications), some are software developers (torvalds, gates), and some are just really influential.
  • thebouv 11y ago
    Yes, but what is their Bacon number?