[WikiEN-l] Trivial categories

Wed Nov 29 20:32:07 UTC 2006

That's the type of reasoning that I find convincing with respect why it
would be a bad idea to try to do explicit Erdos number categories.

On 11/29/06, charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com <
charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
> "The Cunctator" wrote
>
> > Huh. Just because one can't think of a reason that it would be of
> interest
> > to have a list of mathematicians of Erdos Number 3 doesn't mean that
> noone
> > can. Wikipedia ain't paper.
>
> Trouble is: I have checked that my own Erdos number is at most 4. Knowing
> that it is exactly 4, rather than 3, is equivalent to knowing a huge amount
> about collaborative papers ... which is a needle-in-haystack search.
>
> Charles
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