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> Erdős himself has Erdős number 1. People who co-authored a paper with Erdős have Erdős number 2. People who co-authored a paper with someone of Erdős number 2
by FabHK 7y ago
> Erdős himself has Erdős number 1. People who co-authored a paper with Erdős have Erdős number 2. People who co-authored a paper with someone of Erdős number 2 have Erdős number 3 and so on.
No, the Erdős number is the "distance" to Erdős, so he himself has Erdős number 0, his collaborators have 1, etc.
- bitlax 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s%E2%80%93Bacon_number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s%E2%80%93Bacon_numbe...
- kmarc 7y agoOff: Hungarian here. It's quite easy for us to hold a low Erdős number (mine is 4 I think), but interestingly the majority of Hungarians have no idea who he was and why hos work was significant. That's a pity.