# Blonk numbers and Center of the Cubieverse

#### Stefan

##### Member
Ok, you can now look up the distances from all persons to one certain one, or a shortest path between two persons:

http://stefan-pochmann.info/cubieverse/

So far you need to enter WCA-IDs. Letting you search names and choose the right ones would/will be more work.

#### Stefan

##### Member
Here's the version with Bacon, btw:
http://oracleofbacon.org/

And yes, according to that, Tyson indeed has a Bacon number of 2.

#### Cyrus C.

##### Member
My Blonk Number is 2. Thanks to Dave Campbell.

On your program, how is the passage decided if there are 2 people who would give you the same Blonk Number? Alphabetized?

#### Stefan

##### Member
Oh and on my page, I only show the first shortest path I find, not all of them. I might change that to showing the first few, or add showing the number of different paths.

#### Tim Reynolds

Hmm, my average is 1.9372. Is that 11th? Or is there someone between me and Piti?

#### Stefan

##### Member
Yes, you're 11th. Will show that soon.

#### Tim Reynolds

Yay!

Oh, and this is really cool. Thanks for putting this together, Stefan. One other question: I see that, for instance, 2009LINJ04 is separated from 65 people by 6 degrees. Who are some of these people? It's pretty clear nobody can be further than that, as Lars is separated from everyone by only 3.

2.7622 average.

#### Mike Hughey

##### Super Moderator
Staff member
By the way, I'm just curious - who on here has an Erdős number? Knowing the math tendencies of cubers, I can't help believing there are a few. Jessica Fridrich has an Erdős number of 3.

If you want to search, go here.

#### Neo63

##### Member
lol I have a Bacon number of 3 cuz apparently I acted in a movie called Sha chu chong wei (1978)

EDIT: I have an average Blonk number of 2.6876, I should go to more comps

EDIT2: I got Unknown WCA-ID '2003VAND01'. when trying to connect with Lars.

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#### Stefan

##### Member
I have an average Blonk number of 2.6876
No. You have a Blonk number of 2. The 2.6876 is the average Neil Wu number.

I got Unknown WCA-ID '2003VAND01'. when trying to connect with Lars.
Oops. Thanks. Will look into that tomorrow, going to bed now.

#### Stefan

##### Member
Fixed the Vandenbergh bug and now show the place in the Center of the Cubieverse ranklist. More tomorrow.

#### Lucas Garron

##### Member
Must.. resist... temptation to... make a huge graph poster...

#### Stefan

##### Member
You could make a poster for the graph where the vertices are competitions and they're connected via competitors, that one would be much smaller. Show only its minimum spanning tree (counting the sum of all paths from the root, I mean, don't know the name for this) and it might look quite nice. For bonus style points, use every competitor at most once.

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#### Hyprul 9-ty2

##### Member
Thank you Anders I have a blonk number of 2

#### joey

##### Member
I'm 17th in the Cubiverse ranking list.. that's pretty good

#### Rune

You're just angry cause your Blonk number is 2

Ok, (van) Bruchem numbers:
Code:
Bruchem
number    People

0          1   (this is Ron himself)
1       1365   (I'm one of these, woohoo!)
2       6876
3        846
none        19   (the competitors of Dubai Open 2009)

Average Bruchem number: 1.94267165492958
Seems strange that Ton Dennenbroek is not in the top 10.