The
separation an
actor has from
Kevin Bacon; personified in the
six degrees of Kevin Bacon. Interesting stats:
at the time of this writing, there are:
- 1 with a bacon number of 0 (Kevin Bacon himself)
- 1434 with a bacon number of 1
- 98161 with a bacon number of 2
- 215341 with a bacon number of 3
- 47572 with a bacon number of 4
- 2644 with a bacon number of 5
- 251 with a bacon number of 6
- 60 with a bacon number of 7
- 2 with a bacon number of 8
The
average (
mean) bacon number for any given actor is 2.871, with a
standard deviation of 0.66. This is what happens when you have a 365465-node undirected
graph with random
linkage.
Median and
mode are both
3.
The owner of my living plushie character on a MUCK and I were trying to find anyone with a bacon number of more than 4. We went at it for hours, finding as obscure an actor as we could, and we couldn't find a single one. Hubs like Wild Things and Sleepers, and promiscuous actors such as Robert Wagner, ruin it for everyone. Even Marie Cabbit, the credited name of the voice of Ryo-Ohki, has a bacon number of only 3 (because of Petrea Burchard, the horrible English dub voice actor of Ryoko, who was in Death Becomes Her alongside Lydia Peterkoch, who was in She's Having a Baby).
Annoying.