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I'm disappointed it doesn't work with Erdös numbers. I thought Google was supposed to be a geeky company.
by mixmax 14y ago
I'm disappointed it doesn't work with Erdös numbers.
I thought Google was supposed to be a geeky company.
- dylanz 14y agoI was at a dinner event in New Zealand, started talking to this old guy about random topics, and as it turns out... he has an Erdös number of 1. I was definitely a bit floored as he started to describe what they worked on (in person at one point), especially as most of what he spoke of went right over my head. It was a pretty neat and random thing to experience. As for a "Bacon Number"... I'm giving myself a 1. I actually have a plate of bacon sitting right next to me, and that's the bacon that matters the most. EDIT: As per jerf (good catch!), I can confirm that I am not actually bacon. I changed my "bacon number" above from 0 to 1.
- jerf 14y agoThat would still be 1. To have a bacon (non-capital) number of 0, you would have to be the bacon.
- huhtenberg 14y agoI'm pretty sure there's plenty of a well-marbled tissue where my abs used to be :)
- mnicole 14y ago"Be the bacon" I hope someone takes this ad campaign idea and runs with it.
- davelog 14y agoHuman meat is often referred to as 'long pig'. That'd be a gutsy campaign.
- daurnimator 14y agoIf you have eaten enough bacon; you are in large quantities, derived from bacon. I think a bacon number of ~0.25 is entirely possible.
- AncientPC 14y agoProbably because there's no easily accessible data store like IMDB for famous mathematicians or computer scientists.
- teeeler 14y agohttp://www.freebase.com/view/en/mathematician/-/people/profession/people_with_this_profession http://www.freebase.com/view/en/mathematician/-/people/profe... http://www.freebase.com/view/en/computer_scientist/-/people/profession/people_with_this_profession http://www.freebase.com/view/en/computer_scientist/-/people/... The more important piece thats missing is the one that Journals need to contribute - papers and author lists. ;)
- cschmidt 14y agoActually there is an automated Erdos number search here: http://www.ams.org/mathscinet/collaborationDistance.html http://www.ams.org/mathscinet/collaborationDistance.html using the MathSciNet reference database. Unfortuately, it is only accessible to MathSciNet subscribers, so basically on all university campuses or libraries. My Erdos number is no higher than 5 :-).
- evincarofautumn 14y agoHm. My old professor has an Erdős number of 3. I should see about authoring a paper with him…
- maxerickson 14y agoMicrosoft's Academic search uses Erdos as a gimmick: http://academic.research.microsoft.com/VisualExplorer http://academic.research.microsoft.com/VisualExplorer (The gimmick is that Erdos is the default for the co-author path visualization)
- joshAg 14y agohttp://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/ http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/
- adgar 14y ago
- yen223 14y agoStrange times we live in, when making an algorithm to calculate a random piece of trivia is no longer considered 'geeky' =)
- mcguire 14y agoWell, yes, but it's not an interesting piece of trivia. Like the Erdös numbers.
- lutusp 14y ago> Well, yes, but it's not an interesting piece of trivia. Like the Erdös numbers. Yes, true, but by not being actually interesting as the Erdös numbers are, this makes it ... interesting. Sort of like the least interesting number, which ... oh, I'm sure you follow. :)
- imgabe 14y agoI would also like to see it work with Erdös -Bacon numbers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s%E2%80%93Bacon_number http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s%E2%80%93Bacon_number
- riffraff 14y agoerdos-bacon-sabbath http://ebs.rosschurchley.com/ http://ebs.rosschurchley.com/