{"id":85,"date":"2004-06-04T08:23:17","date_gmt":"2004-06-03T22:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/?p=85"},"modified":"2004-06-04T08:23:17","modified_gmt":"2004-06-03T22:23:17","slug":"chalabi-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/chalabi-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Chalabi numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of people (including yours truly) love to brag about their Erdos numbers.  My colleague Steve Flammia wrote to the people at the<br \/>\n<a title=\"Paths to Erdos\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oakland.edu\/enp\/erdpaths.html\">Erdos number project<\/a> asking them if they had computed the Erdos numbers for <em>infamous<\/em> people.  Steve asked specifically about Ahmed Chalabi, who has a PhD in mathematics.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out Chalabi has an Erdos number of at most six!<\/p>\n<p>Which means my Chalabi number is at most eight&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of people (including yours truly) love to brag about their Erdos numbers. My colleague Steve Flammia wrote to the people at the Erdos number project asking them if they had computed the Erdos numbers for infamous people. Steve asked specifically about Ahmed Chalabi, who has a PhD in mathematics. Turns out Chalabi has an&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/chalabi-numbers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chalabi numbers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}