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- From: eppstein@wormwood.ics.uci.edu (David Eppstein)
- Subject: Re: Erdos number
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- Reply-To: eppstein@ics.uci.edu (David Eppstein)
- Organization: Univ. of Calif., Irvine, Info. & Computer Sci. Dept.
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- Date: 19 Nov 92 18:16:06 GMT
- References: <1992Nov12.224157.23146@infodev.cam.ac.uk> <BxyKAK.3r3@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz>
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- chisnall@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz (The Technicolour Throw-up) writes:
- > Interesting to see the name of one of sci.math's frequent posters show up in
- > the tables that Tompa uses. Apparently Vaughn Pratt's Erdos number is at
- > worst 4.
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- In fact it's at most 2.
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- F.R.K. Chung, P. Erdos, R.L. Graham, S.M. Ulam, and F.F. Yao,
- Minimal decompositions of two subgraphs into pairwise isomorphic subgraphs,
- 10th Southeastern Conf. Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing, vol I.,
- Congressus Numerantium XXIII, Utilitas Math., Winnepeg (1979) 3-18.
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- V.R. Pratt and F.F. Yao, On lower bounds for computing the ith
- largest element, 14th IEEE Symp. Found. Comp. Sci. (1973) 70-81
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- Vaughan? You have any papers with E himself?
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- David Eppstein UC Irvine, Info & Computer Science eppstein@ics.uci.edu
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