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But do you have an Erdos-Bacon number, the true test of a polymath? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s%E2%80%93Bacon_number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

• chubot 10y ago
  I admit I geeked out and calculated this a couple months ago, after I was credited on my first academic paper (my career is in programming) If you count video games, I have a Bacon number of 3 because I was credited on Tiger Woods 2003-2005 with an artist named Sylvain Doreau, who is credited on Shrek. John Lithgow was in Shrek and in Footloose with Kevin Bacon. My former coworker Li Zhang has an Erdos number of 2 and we worked together on this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.00133 https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.00133 (with him doing a lot more work than me). So putting that together is an Erdos-Bacon number of 3 + 3 = 6.
• gvurrdon 10y ago
  Years ago I was first author on a paper with this chap, who gives his Erdös number as 4, which would presumably make mine 5: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mario-cortina-borja-2b98ab47 https://www.linkedin.com/in/mario-cortina-borja-2b98ab47 Also, I was in a film with Donald Sutherland (even managing to get on screen at the same time) so I think that's a Bacon number of 2.