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Re:Being OK with not being extraordinary by framecowbird on Monday August 24, 2020 @01:19PM (#24262911)
> To have a defined Erdős–Bacon number, it is necessary to have both appeared in a film and co-authored an academic paper, although this in and of itself is not sufficient.

This surprised me. I guess you could star in a tiny indie film completely closed off from the Bacon graph...

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Re:Being OK with not being extraordinary by read_if_gay_ on Monday August 24, 2020 @01:55PM (#24263343)
I imagine there would be one massive connected component and a large number of really tiny ones.
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Re:Being OK with not being extraordinary by dmurray on Monday August 24, 2020 @01:47PM (#24263255)
Probably easier to co-author a paper with another novice author.
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