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by johnnyanmac 320 days ago
I don't know who Paul Erdös is, so this isn't useful information without considering why they rejected the answer and what counterarguments were provided. It is an unintuitive problem space to consider when approaching it as a simple probability problem, and not one where revealing new context changes the odds.
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Erdös published more papers than any other mathematician in history—and collaborated with more than 500 coauthors, giving rise to the concept of the "Erdős number," a (playful) measure of collaborative proximity among mathematicians