Talk:Bacon number

message: "Notably, Bacon is not the most linkable actor. That honour (as of December 30, 2004) goes to Rod Steiger. The average Steiger number in the acting community is 2.679. By contrast, the average Bacon number is 2.955."
"Using one of the actors with the highest known finite Bacon number (7), William Rufus Shafter as the centre of the acting universe instead of Bacon, we can find two actors with a Rufus Shafter number of 15."
As of 2016 Willam Rufus Shafter has a bacon number of 4
https://oracleofbacon.org/
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The entire cast of the 2004 film Primer no longer have have infinite Bacon numbers - "Samantha Thomson was in World Without Waves (2001) with ..."
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I agree with Tolo - Kevin Bacon isn't famous because of the game - it's famous because of him. I have edited the opening sentence to reflect this.Tellkel 23:25, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: That's a decimal point, not a thousands separator. --Angr/(comhrá) 23:01, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

text: My bad. I see it now. Jxyama 18:31, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

message: Some specific noteworthy people of interest:
Ronald Reagan has a Kevin Bacon number of 2:
#Ronald Reagan was in Young Doctors, The (1961) with Eddie Albert
#Eddie Albert was in Big Picture, The (1989) with Kevin Bacon 
Adolf Hitler has a Kevin Bacon number of 3.
#Adolf Hitler was in Ewige Jude, Der (1940) with Curt Bois
#Curt Bois was in Great Sinner, The (1949) with Kenneth Tobey
#Kenneth Tobey was in Hero at Large (1980) with Kevin Bacon 
Pope John Paul II has a Kevin Bacon number of 4.
#Pope John Paul II was in Padre Pio - Tra cielo e terra (2000) with Giovanni Lombardo Radice
#Giovanni Lombardo Radice was in Gangs of New York (2002) with Martin Scorsese
#Martin Scorsese  was in Bringing Out the Dead (1999)  with Arthur J. Nascarella
#Arthur J. Nascarella was in In the Cut (2003) with Kevin Bacon 
thought someone might find this interesting...  ALKIVAR™ 01:16, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Fun stuff

message: I removed the following from the "Notable Bacon numbers" section because at least one of the cast (David Sullivan (IX)) seems to have appeared in other films alongside other actors, and so would quite likely have a finite Bacon number.
::The entire cast of the 2004 film Primer (Bacon number: infinite/undefined), as none of them has yet appeared in any other films (as of 2004). 
--A bit iffy 14:43, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: See  for (David Sullivan (IX))'s Bacon number. It's 3. That makes everyone else in the movie at least as close as 4. --Parableman 02:48, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Primer

message: I've made some merchandise for the Wikipedia store based on this article: [www.cafepress.com/wikipedia/2585635 Bacon number] section. Let me know what you think on the meta page. Tlogmer ( talk / contributions ) 01:04, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article in the Wikipedia store 

message: I'm trying to calculate my own Bacon Number.  The best link seems to be Nick Jameson but he's not listed in the Oracle of Bacon.  He definitely does have a Bacon Number since people in "Robin Hood: Men in Tights" do.
How does one reasonably do this calculation?  Frotz 18:13, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Calculating a Bacon Number 

message: The definition uses the term "Bacon number" to define "Bacon number". This is somewhat like defining "square root" as "the square root of a number" without explaining all of the steps in computing the square root.  I suggest that the definition needs intermediate steps in the explanation of the algorithm, as follows:<BR>
The computation of a Bacon number for X is a "shortest path" algorithm.  It involves computing the Bacon number for all film actors who X has acted with:
* If X has appeared in a movie with Bacon, X's Bacon number is 1
* If X does not have a Bacon number of 1 (hasn't appeared in a Bacon movie) but has appeared in a movie with someone who has, X's Bacon Number is 2
* If X does not have a Bacon number of 2, the computation continues, examining all actors with whom X has been in a movie. The Bacon number of X is 1 plus the lowest Bacon number of all actors who have appeared in a movie with X.
Note that N is 0 if X is Kevin Bacon. 
-- Gekritzl 19:54, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Self-referencing Definition

message: The result was merge into Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. -- Tevildo (talk) 13:19, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed merge with the Six Degrees of Bacon article

message: If you Google 'bacon number adolf hitler' you get:
Adolf Hitler's Bacon number is 2
Adolf Hitler and Michael Fassbender appeared in Blood Creek.
Michael Fassbender and Kevin Bacon appeared in X-Men: First Class.
Michael Fassbender was born after Hitler died and I haven't seen Blood Creek so I was confused by this.
Ultimately I figured out from reading the movie's IMDB page that it features archive audio and/or footage of Adolf Hitler, uncredited.
Should this count? I guess this doesn't directly have much to do with the Wikipedia article now that I think of it, but I guess I just don't know where else to mention this.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.189.236.119 (talk) 23:17, 6 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hitler has Bacon Number 2 according to Google