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- From: gerry@macadam.mpce.mq.edu.au (Gerry Myerson)
- Subject: Re: Erdos number
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.001750.12213@mailhost.ocs.mq.edu.au>
- Originator: gerry@macadam.mpce.mq.edu.au
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- Organization: School of MPCE, Macquarie University, Australia.
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 00:17:50 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov2.231234.19251@smds.com>, sammy@smds.com (Samuel Murphy) writes:
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- > In article <1992Oct29.170517.7780@email.tuwien.ac.at> zach@csdec1.tuwien.ac.at writes:
- > >In article <petersen.720366033@rzcspc1>, petersen@rzcspc1.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Holger Petersen) writes:
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- [definition of Erdos number, deleted]
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- > So, are there any non-mathematicians with such a number?
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- Yes. John Clough, Professor of Music at SUNY, Buffalo, wrote a paper in the
- Monthly with me some years ago, thereby acquiring an Erdos number of 4.
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- > What is the largest number known?
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- > Sam Murphy
- > sammy@smds.com
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- Gerry Myerson
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