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Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon or Bacon's Law is a parlor game where players challenge each other to choose an actor whom they connect to another actor via a film i
by IncRnd 1y ago
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon or Bacon's Law is a parlor game where players challenge each other to choose an actor whom they connect to another actor via a film in which both actors appeared: this is repeated to try to find the shortest path that leads to prolific American actor Kevin Bacon. It rests on the assumption that anyone involved in the Hollywood film industry can be linked through their film roles to Bacon within six steps. The game's name is a reference to "six degrees of separation", a concept that posits that any two people on Earth are six or fewer acquaintance links apart.
~~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon%27s_law
- c22 1y agoSee also: Erdős number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s_number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s_number
- Nashooo 1y agoAnd the related XKCD https://www.xkcd.com/599/ https://www.xkcd.com/599/
- j_bum 1y agoI wonder if there is an XKCD number: how many ref outs until you can find an XKCD comic?
- Amorymeltzer 1y agoSee also: Erdős–Bacon number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdős–Bacon_number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdős–Bacon_number