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by ergoproxy 4428 days ago
My Erdős Number is 4:

  Me->Mukkai S. Krishnamoorthy->Joseph E. Flaherty->David C. Arney->Paul Erdős
For a time, it appeared to be 2, but Paul Erdős and the Erdős-1 mathematician with whom I collaborated ultimately withdrew their paper, because they found their results were similar to a previously published paper.

I've also appeared on a local Philadelphia PA TV show with newscasters who interviewed Kevin Bacon. Not sure if this gives me a finite Bacon Number, since it was TV (not a movie) and it was non-fiction. If so, then I have the finite Erdős–Bacon Number of 6.