climate fun
stoat | February 28, 2006John fleck has been having fun with degrees of separation. See Erdos, Lambert and Fleck and Eight Degrees of Separation (and the comments, where we discover that Steve McI has a "Mann number" of 4). Whats mine? I can do (C+Gregory) to (Gregory and Sexton) to (Parker and Sexton) to (Parker and Folland) to (Folland and M). So thats 4... there is probably a quicker way to get from Gregory for Mann, though.
Entertainingly, John sets the challenge of a chain connecting me with Lubos Motl. And if you're wondering why you might want to do that, err, you haven't been paying attention :-)
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