After meeting Richard Robinson at the Newcastleton festival the weekend before last and playing a few tunes in the same sessions (there can't have been many Scottish tune sessions featuring two clarinets before) it occurred to me that probably most people on this list have played with somebody else on it at least once.
In mathematics and computer science, this sort of relationship is measured by your "Erdos number". Paul Erdos co-authored papers with a phenomenal number of people. Erdos has Erdos number 0. If you co-authored a paper with Erdos, you have Erdos number 1. Your Erdos number is 1 + the minimal Erdos number of anyone you co-authored a paper with. In the ABC world, Chris Walshaw is the obvious zero point. I've played with Julian Goodacre who has played with Chris, so I have a Walshaw number of 2. That means Wil Macaulay and Richard Robinson both have Walshaw numbers no higher than 3, but perhaps they're lower by some other path. Anyone else know theirs? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack Campin: 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU; 0131 6604760 <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack> * food intolerance data & recipes, Mac logic fonts, Scots traditional music files, and my CD-ROM "Embro, Embro". ------> off-list mail to "j-c" rather than "abc" at this site, please <------ To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
