Meaning of Bacon number | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A number defined such that an actor who has acted in a film with Kevin Bacon has a Bacon number of 1, an actor who has acted in a film with somebody having a Bacon number of 1 has a Bacon number of 2, and so on.
2. A number defined such that someone who knows (defined to various strictnesses) Kevin Bacon has a Bacon number of 1, someone who knows somebody with a Bacon number of 1 has a Bacon number of 2, and so on.

Examples

“quick fun fact about me.i have a bacon number of 5. my dad knew pope francis (before he was pope), who knows obama, who knows whoopi goldberg, who worked with kevin bacon”

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