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Encounter is too small for notability. We all have six degree of separation after all. Erdos number is specifically publishing paper, which is much harder. Just
by mcmoor 3y ago
Encounter is too small for notability. We all have six degree of separation after all. Erdos number is specifically publishing paper, which is much harder. Just like its variants like Bacon number for producing films.
- Aerbil313 3y agoThat's a myth. In the original experiment, AFAIR, while the average distance between any two people in the world was 6 persons, the number of successfully completed chains of connection was very small[1]. 1: https://www.hyphanet.org/assets/papers/lic.pdf https://www.hyphanet.org/assets/papers/lic.pdf