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Three mathematicians on Wikipedia have an Erdős number of 1 ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedians_with_Erd%C5%91s_number_1 Wikipedians with Erdős number 1]). These are co-authors of Erdős. It has 7 with an Erdős number of 5 ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedians_with_Erd%C5%91s_number_5 Wikipedians with Erdős number 5]). These are coauthors, of coauthors, of coauthors, of coauthors, of coauthors of Erdős. The average mathematician has an Erdős number of 5. This results in a ratio of 3/7 for coauthors of Erdős vs average mathematicians on Wikipedia.
Three mathematicians on Wikipedia have an Erdős number of 1 ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedians_with_Erd%C5%91s_number_1 Wikipedians with Erdős number 1]). These are co-authors of Erdős. It has 7 with an Erdős number of 5 ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedians_with_Erd%C5%91s_number_5 Wikipedians with Erdős number 5]). These are coauthors, of coauthors, of coauthors, of coauthors, of coauthors of Erdős. The average mathematician has an Erdős number of 5. This results in a ratio of 3/7 for coauthors of Erdős vs average mathematicians on Wikipedia.
According to the Erdős number project http://www.oakland.edu/enp/trivia.html there are however worldwide an estimated number of 504 mathematicians with an Erdős number of 1, and an estimated 87760 with an Erdős number of 5. This gives a ratio of about 1/175 for coauthors vs average mathematicians. This means there are about '''75 times''' as many coauthors of Erdős on Wikipedia, than there are among mathematicians.
According to the Erdős number project [http://www.oakland.edu/enp/trivia.html] there are however worldwide an estimated number of 504 mathematicians with an Erdős number of 1, and an estimated 87760 with an Erdős number of 5. This gives a ratio of about 1/175 for coauthors vs average mathematicians. This means there are about '''75 times''' as many coauthors of Erdős on Wikipedia, than there are among mathematicians.
Conservapedia in contrast an estimated number of zero coauthors of Erdős among its ranks, while there are lot of very average mathematicians. --[[User:Order|Order]] 16 March 2007, 2:00 (AEST)
Conservapedia in contrast an estimated number of zero coauthors of Erdős among its ranks, while there are lot of very average mathematicians. --[[User:Order|Order]] 16 March 2007, 2:00 (AEST)