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	number - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Numbers (book of Bible), fourth book of the Old Testament, so named because the opening chapters concern the census, or numbering, of the Israelite...
		A number is an abstract entity that represents a count or measurement.
		The Bacon number of an actor or actress is the number of degrees of separation (see Six degrees of separation) they have from actor Kevin Bacon, as defined by the game known as Six Degrees of Kevin...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /number.html (217 words)

	THE PHILOSOPHY OF FRANCIS BACON
		Bacon constantly said that he would return to the subject and that he knew how to complete it; but, in view of the failure of all similar attempts and the intractable nature of the problem, we may venture to believe that he was mistaken.
		Bacon holds that the existence of teleology in Nature is an obvious fact, and that the investigation of final causes is a perfectly legitimate branch of Natural Philosophy.
		Bacon has said that there is a one-to-one correlation between simple natures and their forms; it follows directly that there must be as many forms as there are simple natures.
	www.ditext.com /broad/bacon.html (10102 words)

	PlanetMath: Erdős-Bacon number
		The Erdős-Bacon number of a mathematician or an actor is the sum of their Erdős number and their Bacon number.
		For example, William Timothy Gowers, who has Erdős number 4, was a consultant for Proof, with Gwyneth Paltrow in the lead rôle.
		This is version 2 of Erdős-Bacon number, born on 2007-07-28, modified 2007-07-30.
	planetmath.org /encyclopedia/ErdHosBaconNumber.html (218 words)

	Bacon Number : Wikipedia Merchandise : CafePress.com
		The Bacon number of an actor or actress is the number of degrees of separation they have from actor Kevin Bacon, as defined by the game known as Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.
		The average Steiger number in the acting community is 2.679.
		By contrast, the average Bacon number is 2.946.
	www.cafepress.com /wikipedia/2585635 (193 words)

	PlanetMath: Bacon number
		The Bacon number is to movie actors what the Erdős number is to mathematicians, only the connections are through films, and the central actor to connect to is Kevin Bacon.
		In fact, for most actors working today, whether in Hollywood, Bollywood, or anywhere in the world, can be connected to Bacon in just two steps.
		This is version 2 of Bacon number, born on 2007-07-28, modified 2007-08-02.
	planetmath.org /encyclopedia/BaconNumber.html (183 words)

	TO FRANCIS BACON
		Bacon's connection with the Shakespeare plays and poems, a matter for much needlessly heated and blind partisan controversy, has already been the subject of unprejudiced research by various members of the society.
		BACON SOCIETY OF The first regular meeting of the Society for the season of 1922-1923 was held on the evening of November 20th, 1922, at the residence of Mr.
		In the examination of and further search for Bacon manuscripts, it is worthy of note that after more or less considerable intervals, some heretofore unknown manuscripts still continue to be found by investigators, and we have even today to reckon with the possibility of discovering new ones in some of the archives of divers countries.
	www.sirbacon.org /links/abaconi1.htm (12873 words)

	Innaugural Event a Success!
		The Ed Bacon Foundation was launched on November 12, 2004 at the 200-Year Anniversary Celebration of Freeman's Auction in Philadelphia.
		A number of prominent Philadelphians were in attendance, as well as three of Bacon's children.
		The official registration and financial information of The Ed Bacon Foundation may be obtained from the Pennsylvania Department of State by calling toll-free, within Pennsylvania, 1-800-732-0999.
	www.edbacon.org /news/freemans.htm (410 words)

	Irregular Webcomic!
		Kevin Bacon is a good friend of mine, and has been bugging me for ages to appear in the comic, so I wrote this to humour him.
		It is the origin of the relatively recent Bacon number discussed in recent strips in this very webcomic, which measures a similar form of separation from Kevin Bacon, with the connections being acting appearances in the same film.
		This led to the natural extension of the Erdős-Bacon number, being the sum of one's Erdős and Bacon numbers.
	www.irregularwebcomic.net /comic.php?current=1420&theme=1&dir=next5 (741 words)

	Kevin Bacon Example
		The idea of the game is to connect an actor to Kevin Bacon through a trail of actors who appeared together in movies, and do so in less than six steps.
		Erdös Number which has ``been a part of the folklore of mathematicians throughout the world for many years''.
		William Shatner's bacon number is 2 Denise Richards's bacon number is 1 Kevin Bacon's bacon number is 0 Patrick Stewart's bacon number is 2 Steve Martin's bacon number is 1...
	www.boost.org /libs/graph/doc/kevin_bacon.html (1118 words)

	Bacon's Universe \| Futility Closet
		An actor's "Bacon number" is the number of successive co-stars through whom he can be linked to actor Kevin Bacon (hence the game "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon").
		For example, Elvis Presley has a Bacon number of 2: He appeared in Change of Heart (1969) with Edward Asner, who appeared in JFK with Bacon.
		The average Bacon number is 2.955; the average Steiger number is 2.679.
	www.futilitycloset.com /2005/08/26/bacons-universe (146 words)

	Erdos Number project: related items
		Erdös numbers are not the only case of interest in links among people.
		Bruce Reznick is in a similar position, with an Erdös number of 1 and a Bacon number (by virture of being an extra in Pretty Maids All in a Row with
		Morphy number and Kasparov number, connecting people who have played each other (in the latter case, it’s a directed graph, based on one player’s beating another).
	www.oakland.edu /enp/related.html (728 words)

	Bacon
		On a platter, place one white paper towel (I've found that the bacon is much more likely to stick to the towel if there are designs on it or if it's a "generic" brand).
		Insert into the microwave and cook on high for a number of minutes equal to the number of strips plus one (e.g., four strips = five minutes).
		For two or less increase by only thirty seconds and for six or more increase by a minute and a half (play with it a bit as the exact time will depend on your microwave's power and the way it gets distributed around the cooking chamber).
	tomsdomain.com /recipes/bacon.htm (319 words)

	Small World Networks
		But a few years ago, Brett Tjaden—a computer scientist at the University of Virginia—catapulted Bacon to true international recognition with the claim that he was somehow at the center of the movie universe.
		If they have never been in a film with Kevin Bacon but have been in a film with somebody else who has, then they have a Bacon Number of two, and so on.
		Furthermore, our average number of acquaintances is very much less than the size of the global population (at most thousands, compared with billions).
	mysite.verizon.net /pulsar/Library_Ref/Business/Marketing/6degreesSeparation/smallWorld_Network.html (3082 words)

	Erdos Number Project
		Erdös numbers have been a part of the folklore of mathematicians throughout the world for many years.
		This subpage has loads of information about the collaboration graph and Erdös numbers, including the distribution of Erdös numbers (they range up to 13, but the average is less than 5, and almost everyone with a finite Erdös number has a number less than 8) and “Erdös numbers of the second kind”.
		The Facts about Erdös Numbers and Collaboration subpage has been updated to reflect 2004 information (it had been based on 2000 information).
	www.oakland.edu /enp (737 words)

	Kevin Bacon
		During filming, though, to keep the characters in character, Bacon and the other actors playing straight-laced college kids were not allowed to fraternize with fraternity brothers John Belushi, Tim Matheson, Tom Hulce et al., even off camera.
		To play, choose an actor at random, and determine their smallest possible "Bacon number." If the actor has worked with Kevin Bacon, his or her Bacon number is 1); if they've only worked with someone who worked with Bacon, their Bacon number is 2, and so on.
		Bacon has made so many movies, almost everyone involved in Hollywood can be connected to him within six hops.
	www.nndb.com /people/717/000022651 (388 words)

	Students study six degrees of Kevin BaconPAGE_TITLE#44; create Internet page
		During Bacon's appearance, the three fraternity members were on the phone, and Stewart would call out the names of actors and actresses.
		The number of links required to connect a star to Bacon is referred to as the star's "Bacon Number." According to Wasson, the idea of the Bacon Number also has its origins in academia.
		An actor or actress who starred in a movie with Bacon directly would have a Bacon Number of one, whereas a star who has been in a film with another actor who starred with Bacon would have a number of two, and so on.
	www.cs.virginia.edu /misc/news-bacon2.html (1122 words)

	The Oracle of Bacon
		Bacon himself has a "Bacon Number" of "0".
		Anyone who was in a movie with someone ELSE who was in a Kevin Bacon movie has a "Bacon Number" of 2.
		I typed in "Pinky Lee" and he actually got a Bacon Number of 3.
	mysite.verizon.net /resqyy3n/id7.html (190 words)

	The Oracle of Bacon at Virginia
		Oracle of Bacon at Virginia, which was selected by Time Magazine as one of the top-ten best Web sites for 1996.
		Bacon, who is filming a movie right now in North Carolina as his new film, Sleepers, opens today, says he has never even been on line.
		When Bacon was a guest on the show a year later, the show's producers invited the three back to join him on stage.
	www.cs.virginia.edu /misc/news-bacon.html (2900 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon - A623431
		Miriam Margolyes was in Balto (1995) with Kevin Bacon.
		John Lennon has a Bacon number of two, and his connection to Kevin is none other than the singing, drumming and occasionally acting star of many a mellowed-out middle-aged rocker's record collection: Phil Collins.
		The other half is trying to link your chosen thespians in as few moves as possible - a Bacon number of one being that of an actor actually in a film with the man himself.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/classic/A623431 (1248 words)

	Michael T. Goodrich - Erdős-Bacon Number
		Erdős number is the degrees of separation from that person to the famous mathematician Paul Erdős.
		In that collaboration community, a person's Bacon number is the degrees of separation from that person to the actor, Kevin Bacon.
		Note: there are some who define the Bacon number in terms of a collaboration graph whose edges are restricted to collaborations that are movies.
	www.ics.uci.edu /~goodrich/erdos.html (261 words)

	The Oracle Of Bacon @ The 80's Movie Gateway
		Is Kevin Bacon The Centre Of The Universe?
		Their obsession was to prove the theory that Bacon could be connected in four links or less to any actor in American movies made in the past 15 years.
		The result was The Oracle of Bacon at Virginia website, which is automatically calculates an actor's Bacon number.
	www.fast-rewind.com /bacon.htm (1049 words)

	Bacon number@Everything2.com
		The average (mean) bacon number for any given actor is 2.871, with a standard deviation of 0.66.
		The owner of my living plushie character on a MUCK and I were trying to find anyone with a bacon number of more than 4.
		Even Marie Cabbit, the credited name of the voice of Ryo-Ohki, has a bacon number of only 3 (because of Petrea Burchard, the horrible English dub voice actor of Ryoko, who was in Death Becomes Her alongside Lydia Peterkoch, who was in She's Having a Baby).
	everything2.com /index.pl?node_id=401008 (1325 words)

	SPACE.com -- Space, Society, and Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon
		Though some of the movies that appear in the Kevin Bacon Game may be obscure, they serve the purpose of making links between actors who in some cases have never had direct contact.
		Though Kevin Bacon might be at the center of the Hollywood universe, this group is seeking the insights from a much larger universe of dignitaries.
		And unlike the Kevin Bacon Game, where actors are connected only by virtue of the movies they have appeared in, at the International Astronautical Congress, the boundaries can be brokenacross fields as diverse as space law and biomedicine, or history and aeronautical engineering.
	www.space.com /searchforlife/seti_031009.html (1354 words)

	IMDb Pro : (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		The "Kevin Bacon Game" is based on a similar theory, tracing actors' connections to Kevin Bacon based on actors with whom they have appeared in films.
		The "Bacon Number" is based on how many films it takes to connect someone to Kevin Bacon.
		Jeanne Tripplehorn was not in a movie with Kevin Bacon, but has appeared with Pollak in Steal This Movie, meaning it takes two films to connect her (Steal This Movie and A Few Good Men), giving her a Bacon number of 2.
	pro.imdb.com /help/general/bacon (267 words)

	The Volokh Conspiracy - Oooh, I too have a Bacon number of 3:
		Eugene's number is also 3 through Dennis Prager, who was in Heavy with Pruitt Taylor Vince, who was in Trapped with Kevin Bacon.
		UPDATE: My wife Hanah also has a Bacon number of 3, as she was in a stage production of Peer Gynt in Pasadena with Michael York, who was in Austin Powers 2 with Tim Robbins, who was in Mystic River with Kevin Bacon.
		And my Erdos number (I was a physics major) is six, giving me an Erdos-Bacon number that's not only defined but also is in the single digits.
	volokh.com /posts/1181753875.shtml (1576 words)

	Amazon.com: Bacon Wave: Gourmet Food (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		The Bacon Wave cooks bacon faster than the traditional method, creates less of a mess, and produces bacon that is not ridden with excess oil and fat.
		The bacon wave cooks bacon so well in the microwave, that there's no telling it wasn't cooked in the frying pan.
		We have tried a number of bacon cookers, and this is the best that we have found.
	www.amazon.com /Asseenontvguys-Bacon-Wave/dp/B000EYRA3W (423 words)

	Kevin Bacon Game@Everything2.com
		Hanks, Tom was in Apollo 13 (1995) with Bacon, Kevin.
		The Kevin Bacon game has surfaced in mass media at least six times.
		In this episode, Jamie is pregnant but doesn't want to tell anyone, however Paul jumps the gun and tells their neighbor about their expected child while riding an elevator.
	everything2.com /index.pl?node_id=22818&lastnode_id=0 (671 words)

	A surprise property of the connected world
		It became a popular game at Hollywood parties, where actors and actresses would work out their personal Bacon numbers based upon the number of connection links they had to Kevin Bacon through their own appearances in films.
		Bacon numbers higher than 4 are very rare and the game soon become one of trying to find little known actors or actresses with the highest Bacon number.
		Most interesting of all these statistics is the number of actors and actresses who have the same Bacon number.
	www.stigmergicsystems.com /stig_v1/stigrefs/stigclusters/page2.html (769 words)

	Ask Doctor Vector: What is your Cope-Marsh number?
		An individual's Erdős–Bacon number is the sum of one's Erdős number—which measures the "collaborative distance" in authoring mathematical papers between that individual and Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős—and one's Bacon number—which represents the number of links, through roles in films, by which the individual is separated from actor Kevin Bacon.
		It would be interesting to know who had the lowest Cope-Marsh number, which is the sum of one's collaborative distance from Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh.
		Also, since both Cope and Marsh lived longer ago (than Erdos, that is), a "Cope-Marsh" number would necessarily be higher than an Erdos number (or a Bacon number or any combination thereof).
	drvector.blogspot.com /2007/07/what-is-your-cope-marsh-number.html (698 words)

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