{"id":3554,"date":"2009-09-05T03:00:47","date_gmt":"2009-09-05T08:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=3554"},"modified":"2009-09-05T03:00:47","modified_gmt":"2009-09-05T08:00:47","slug":"is-degrees-squared-a-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/3554","title":{"rendered":"Is Degrees Squared a Unit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com\/2009\/09\/six-degrees-of-paul-erdos.html\">Physics Buzz: Six degrees of Paul Erd\u0151s<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Some famous names have low Erd\u0151s numbers\u2014 Bill Gates has an Erd\u0151s number of 4, Steven Chu&#8217;s is 7, and Albert Einstein is 2.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If Chu&#8217;s is 7, mine is no greater than 10; I can trivially trace a path through my thesis advisor to his, to Chu.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;ve already mentioned that I sort of have a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1242\">Bacon number of 3<\/a>.  Consequently, I&#8217;d like to popularize the notion of combining the two by adding them, making my  Bacon-Erd\u0151s number, or Berd\u0151s number, 13  (or perhaps adding in quadrature, making my Berd\u0151s number 10.44)<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Chad asks <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/09\/who_is_the_erdos_of_physics.php\">Who Is the Erdos of Physics?<\/a>  Maybe we can make this three dimensional.<\/p>\n<p>(Update: I&#8217;ve found that my Erd\u0151s number is no larger than 9, and I may be able to bring it down to 6 fairly easily)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physics Buzz: Six degrees of Paul Erd\u0151s Some famous names have low Erd\u0151s numbers\u2014 Bill Gates has an Erd\u0151s number of 4, Steven Chu&#8217;s is 7, and Albert Einstein is 2. If Chu&#8217;s is 7, mine is no greater than &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/3554\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,31,51,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math","category-movies","category-silly","category-tmi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}