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On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:02:34 +0200, Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
>> Did you know that Natalie Portman (one of the protagonists of the
>> Star Wars prequel trilogy) has an Erdos-Bacon number of 6?
>
> I'm sure she's been in some quality films as well. (Although currently,
> I can only think of V for Vendetta...)
>
> PS. Can anybody verify this factiod? Or is it just another piece of
> Wikipedia trivia of dubious veracity?
IMDB confirms that her birth-name is Natalie Hershlag.
(N. Hershlag)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/nimg.2002.1170
(A. A. Baird)
http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/0898929053467569
(M. S. Gazzaniga)
http://www-users.med.cornell.edu/~jdvicto/vimash89.html
(J. D. Victor)
http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=SJMAAH000013000005000879000001
(J. Gillis)
http://jlms.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/s1-12/47/185
(P. Erdős)
I am sure you can trace the Bacon part yourself.
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FE
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On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:58:44 +0100, Invisible wrote:
> http://www.xkcd.com/599/
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> If this doesn't make you laugh, you fail. :-P
It took a few minutes of research to see why it was funny, but once I
understood, I nearly fell out of my chair....
Jim
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