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I was listening to Radiolab today. The episode is called Numbers and it's from 2009. In one of the sections they talk about Paul Erdős and his collaborate work. A guy made some research into how many people there are with different Erdős numbers. There are about 500 people with Erdős number 1 and next ring is about 8000. I believe they stopped at 10 where the total number of mathematicians connected to him is 200000.
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