On: Google's "Bacon number" search

[rglovejoy]

Right. I tried finding out Erdös' Bacon number and nothing came up.

[libria → rglovejoy]

4, if an Erdos/Bacon number were a thing:

P. Erdős and C. Pomerance published "On the largest prime factors of n and n +1"

C. Pomerance and L. Adleman published "On Distinguishing Prime Numbers From Composite Numbers"

L Adleman was a mathematical consultant in Sneakers with David Strathairn.

David Strathairn and Kevin Bacon appeared in The River Wild.

//edit, Randy Pausch actually appeared in a movie so I'm sure there's a connection there, too.

[philwelch → libria]

Yes, the elusive Bacon-Erdos number: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdős–Bacon_number