Documentation of Nick Matzke's Bacon-Erdős Number: The Bacon-Erdős Number is one's Bacon Number plus one's Erdős Number: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s%E2%80%93Bacon_number At least if one counts non-math papers and documentaries as films, then: My Erdős number is 4 according to this database (click "Co-author Path"; requires Silverlight and e.g. Safari not Chrome) : http://academic.research.microsoft.com/VisualExplorer#7333545&1112639 But, we can do better: 1. Erdős, Paul; Shallit, Jeffrey O. (1991). "New Bounds on the Length of Finite Pierce and Engel Series." Sem. Theor. Nombres Bordeaux, 3, 43-53, 1991. http://archive.numdam.org/ARCHIVE/JTNB/JTNB_1991__3_1/JTNB_1991__3_1_43_0/JTNB_1991__3_1_43_0.pdf 2. Elsberry, Wesley; Shallit, Jeffrey (2011). "Information theory, evolutionary computation, and Dembski’s 'complex specified information.'" Synthese, 178(2), 237-270. January 2011 http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-009-9542-8 3. Matzke, Nicholas J.; Elsberry, Wesley R. (2007). "The Collapse of 'Intelligent Design'," in: Stewart, R. B. (Ed.), Intelligent design : William A Dembski & Michael Ruse in dialogue, Fortress Press, Minneapolis, MN, pp. 70-87. So, I am a 3. My Bacon number: 1. Ben Stein appeared with Kevin Bacon in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986). http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091042/ 2. Eugenie Scott appeared in the pro-creationism documentary Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (2008), which starred Ben Stein. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1091617/?ref_=nm_knf_t1 3. I appeared with Eugenie Scott in Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial, by PBS's Nova program. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/evolution/intelligent-design-trial.html My Bacon-Erdős number: 3+3=6. QED.