Bacon Number

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Bacon Number

Legg inn av Gjest » 08 mai 2006 19:02:53

Like the "Oracle of Bacon" _http://www.cs.virginia.edu/oracle/_
(http://www.cs.virginia.edu/oracle/) which determines how many degrees of seperation any
actor is from Kevin Bacon, my system tries to determine how many
relationship-steps a person is away from Richard Cecil.

So maybe I should call it the Cecil Number.

Will Johnson

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Re: Bacon Number

Legg inn av Gjest » 08 mai 2006 22:06:09

WJhonson@aol.com schrieb:

Like the "Oracle of Bacon" _http://www.cs.virginia.edu/oracle/_
(http://www.cs.virginia.edu/oracle/) which determines how many degrees of seperation any
actor is from Kevin Bacon, my system tries to determine how many
relationship-steps a person is away from Richard Cecil.

So maybe I should call it the Cecil Number.

Will Johnson

Aha - now it all makes [a strange kind of] sense. A harmless way to
while away an idle moment or two.

So, for instance, Thomas Docwra of Putteridge, Herts (1519-1602) would
be a Number 10 - the maximum permitted - on the Cecil scale.

Richard Cecil (d 1553) was father of:

1. Elizabeth Cecil (d 1610) who married
2. Hugh Alington (d 1618), son of
3. George Alington, son of
4. Sir Giles Alington (d 1522), son of
5. Sir William Alington (d 1485), son of
6. Mary Cheney (d 1473), sister of
7. Elizabeth Cheney, mother of
8. Catherine Haselden, mother of
9. John Docwra (d 1531), father of
10. Thomas Docwra (1519-1602)

By the way, wouldn't Richard Cecil's grandson-in-law be a Number 3,
rather than two steps removed as you noted elsewhere (in your original
thread)?

MA-R

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