{"id":16461,"date":"2015-09-13T11:43:39","date_gmt":"2015-09-13T16:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=16461"},"modified":"2015-09-13T11:43:39","modified_gmt":"2015-09-13T16:43:39","slug":"erdos-bacon-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=16461","title":{"rendered":"Erd\u0151s-Bacon number"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning I was curious to see whether there was such a thing as an “Erd\u0151s-Bacon number” — the sum of one’s Erd\u0151s number<\/a> and one’s Bacon number<\/a>. Sure enough, there is a Wikipedia page about it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I would have assumed that I don’t have an Erd\u0151s\u2013Bacon number, since I’ve never appeared in a Hollywood film, and therefore don’t have a Bacon number. But apparently the rules are relaxed for Erd\u0151s\u2013Bacon numbers, to include any shared role in a film. For example, Ken Goldberg is said to qualify in the “Bacon” part of an Erd\u0151s\u2013Bacon number because he was a co-writer of a documentary in which an actor appeared who also worked with Kevin Bacon on another film.<\/p>\n

So by that definition I have an Erd\u0151s\u2013Bacon number of five: I’ve co-authored with Jack Schwartz, who has co-authored with Donald Newman, who co-authored with Paul Erd\u0151s. And I share a film credit with Jeff Bridges, who also appeared on a different film with Kevin Bacon.<\/p>\n

According to the Wikipedia, the only person in history with a lower Erd\u0151s\u2013Bacon number than mine is Carl Sagan, and I’m ok with that.<\/p>\n

Although I am probably not going to turn down any offers to work on a film with Kevin Bacon. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning I was curious to see whether there was such a thing as an “Erd\u0151s-Bacon number” — the sum of one’s Erd\u0151s number and one’s Bacon number. Sure enough, there is a Wikipedia page about it. I would have assumed that I don’t have an Erd\u0151s\u2013Bacon number, since I’ve never appeared in a Hollywood … Continue reading “Erd\u0151s-Bacon number”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16461"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16462,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16461\/revisions\/16462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}