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If you want something really, really bad...
you'll get it...really, really bad.
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Date:
2011-07-20 08:32 pm (UTC)
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The story I always heard was that someone applied the theory behind the
Erdős number
to the film industry and Kevin Bacon was a good reference point.
But wiki tells me it developed kind of independently on Usenet:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon#History
For some reason the fact that there are people who have an Erdős-Bacon number is the thing I like most...
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Date: 2011-07-20 08:32 pm (UTC)But wiki tells me it developed kind of independently on Usenet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon#History
For some reason the fact that there are people who have an Erdős-Bacon number is the thing I like most...