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does any poaster have an Erdos-Bacon Number?

A person's Erdős–Bacon number is the sum of their Erd...
butt cheeks of Hormuz
  04/18/26
Winnie from the Wonder Years has one: American actress Dani...
butt cheeks of Hormuz
  04/18/26
Natalie Portman (born: Natalie Hershlag) has one: Israeli-A...
butt cheeks of Hormuz
  04/18/26
Holy Hershlag, batman!
Clavius
  04/18/26


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Date: April 18th, 2026 10:59 AM
Author: butt cheeks of Hormuz (✅🍑)

A person's Erdős–Bacon number is the sum of their Erdős number—which measures the "collaborative distance" in authoring academic papers between that person and Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős—and their Bacon number—which represents the number of links, through roles in films, by which the person is separated from American actor Kevin Bacon.[1][2] The lower the number, the closer a person is to Erdős and Bacon, which reflects a small world phenomenon in academia and entertainment.[3]

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 as one's co-authors must have a known chain leading to Paul Erdős, and one's film must have actors eventually leading to Kevin Bacon.

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Date: April 18th, 2026 11:00 AM
Author: butt cheeks of Hormuz (✅🍑)

Winnie from the Wonder Years has one:

American actress Danica McKellar, who played Winnie Cooper in The Wonder Years, has an Erdős–Bacon number of 6. While an undergraduate at the University of California, Los Angeles, McKellar coauthored a mathematics paper[25] with Lincoln Chayes, who via his wife Jennifer Tour Chayes[26] has an Erdős number of 3, giving McKellar one of 4. Having worked with Margaret Easley, McKellar has a Bacon number of 2.[2]

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Date: April 18th, 2026 11:01 AM
Author: butt cheeks of Hormuz (✅🍑)

Natalie Portman (born: Natalie Hershlag) has one:

Israeli-American actress Natalie Portman has an Erdős–Bacon number of 7.[32] She collaborated (using her birth name, Natalie Hershlag) with Abigail A. Baird,[33] who has a collaboration path[34][35][36] leading to Joseph Gillis, who has an Erdős number of 1, giving Portman an Erdős number of 5.[37] Portman appeared in A Powerful Noise Live (2009) with Sarah Michelle Gellar, who appeared in The Air I Breathe (2007) with Bacon, giving Portman a Bacon number of 2.[38]

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Date: April 18th, 2026 2:35 PM
Author: Clavius

Holy Hershlag, batman!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858074&forum_id=2)#49825302)