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compilerbitch ([personal profile] compilerbitch) wrote2005-12-15 11:20 pm

Bow down all before me...

... for, according to the American Mathematical Society, I have an Erdös number of 5.

The chain goes Me → Alan Mycroft → Richard A. O'Keefe → Leon Sterling → Nicholas C. Wormald → Paul Erdös.

Woohoo!

(for those of you who don't know what on earth I'm talking about, look here)

Edit: I have been playing a bit with the AMS web site. It seems I have an Alan Turing number of 7, a Carl Friedrich Gauss number of 9 and a Catherine Greenhill number of 5 (not that many of you know here, but [livejournal.com profile] galliana knows her well).

[identity profile] doseybat.livejournal.com 2005-12-15 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
*goes pale*
*faints*
i have seen a ghost! do you really exist in a livejournal incarnation?? *boggles* *faints again*

[identity profile] drswirly.livejournal.com 2005-12-15 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
You see? I say a couple of sentences and people start passing out. And then others wonder why I don't write actual diary entries...

(Actually, I just like saying "Laszlo Babai".)

[identity profile] doseybat.livejournal.com 2005-12-16 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
gosh, a reccuring ghostie! *fascinated* why Laszlo Babai? (*complete lack of appropriate cultural reference*)

[identity profile] drswirly.livejournal.com 2005-12-16 08:16 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, there's no particular reference - it's just a fun name to say.