Re: Any body here knows the design model of The Oracle of Bacon at Virginia?

John Ruan wrote:
> Acturally what I am interested in is its algorithms.
>
> If you input a name of an actor, it will give you the bacon number ,
> or the degree of separation from Kevin Bacon.
>
>
> What is the basic algorithms behind this?

Graph algorithms like the famous one from Edsger W. Dijkstra

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> How do you come out with this number?

You really should consult other places than this, like math newsgroups.

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Jeroen