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		harel on Aug 25, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Degrees of Kevin Bacon Using Postgres That's all very cool. As an aside I always remembered the bacon number was between Bacon and anyone else, Hollywood actor or not. Keeping it withing Hollywood makes a lot more sense.

defrost on Aug 25, 2024 [–]

Hollywood bleeds out across the boundaries, quoting the Head of the Theoretical Physics Group at Imperial College (2011-2016):

    I have an Erdos-Bacon number of six (having written a paper with Shing-Tung Yau and appeared in the film Windrider with Nicole Kidman).

https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/j.gauntlett

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