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- From: cyeomans@ms.uky.edu (Charles Yeomans)
- Subject: Re: Erdos number
- References: <1992Nov11.001750.12213@mailhost.ocs.mq.edu.au>
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.104155.7564@ms.uky.edu>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 15:41:55 GMT
- Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
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- In article <1992Nov11.001750.12213@mailhost.ocs.mq.edu.au> gerry@macadam.mpce.mq.edu.au (Gerry Myerson) writes:
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- >In article <1992Nov2.231234.19251@smds.com>, sammy@smds.com (Samuel Murphy) writes:
- >>
- >> 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?
- >
- >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.
- >
- >> What is the largest number known?
- >>
- Perhaps we could get the AMS to make an Erdos number computer available via
- e-math.ams.com.
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- Charles Yeomans
- cyeomans@ms.uky.edu
- yeomans@austin.onu.edu
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