On 10/14/06, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:
Alphax (Wikipedia email) wrote:
Not so. It's a lot like actor's Bacon
numbers: Meeting someone is one
thing, but co-author a mathematical paper or acting alongside them is
slightly less trivial than that.
It's important to put the emphasis on the word "slightly" in that
last
comment. I have a priestly cousin who likes to hand out pictures of
himself shaking hands with the late pope. He gave me one of those
pictures. This would give me a degree of separation from JP2 of 2.
Speaking as a person who usually favours inclusionist policies, could we
consolidate these templates into one about degrees of triviality?
Does everyone in your profession have a "Papal Number", talk about it
sometimes over beer, and sometimes put it in resumes?
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