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motbob
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States12546 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-30 02:49:27
June 30 2012 01:18 GMT
#1
Paul Erdős was a prolific writer of academic papers, and he collaborated with over 500 fellow mathematicians over the course of his life. Eventually, the concept of the "Erdős number" arose.

Paul Erdős has an Erdős number of zero.
Anyone who collaborated with Erdős has an Erdős number of 1.
Anyone who collaborated with someone who collaborated with Erdős has an Erdős number of 2.

And so on.

We can transfer this concept to the world of Starcraft by thinking about the people who have beaten Flash.

(T)Flash has a Flash number of zero.
(Z)Jaedong has a Flash number of 1. (link)
(P)iNcontroL has a Flash number of 2 (he beat Jaedong in a practice match at one point if I recall correctly)
Superiorwolf has a Flash number of 3.

What is your Flash number?

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Renner
Profile Joined June 2011
United States15 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-30 17:13:40
June 30 2012 01:22 GMT
#2
My Flash number is 3 as a result of the pounding inflicted on me by (P)iNcontroL.
Edit: Upon further examination of the rules it appears my Flash number is 4 because I've beaten a friend of mine who beat iNcontroL.
Day[9] doesn't lose. Whenever he GGs, Manfred was at the controls
Archas
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States6531 Posts
June 30 2012 01:27 GMT
#3
On June 30 2012 10:22 Renner wrote:
My Flash number is 3 as a result of the pounding inflicted on me by (P)iNcontroL.

I think the OP is saying that you need to BEAT that person to get your FlaSh number. If you didn't beat iNcontroL, it doesn't give you the number.

Unless I'm just not understand this correctly.
The room is ripe with the stench of bitches!
SnowFantasy
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
4173 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-30 01:30:40
June 30 2012 01:28 GMT
#4
At most a 3. maybe a 2.

edit: after seeing the rules better my Flash number is definitely a 3.
Megaliskuu
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States5123 Posts
June 30 2012 01:31 GMT
#5
3, beat incontrol on ladder once lolz
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nttea
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Sweden4353 Posts
June 30 2012 01:33 GMT
#6
I beat incontrol in a clanmatch in broodwar so my flash number is 3! whoah that's fucking insane!!! does it count that he offraced and i don't think he was that serious about it since i was a c rank newbie? was a bo3 though ^_^ essentially this means anyone who ever beat incontrol has a flash number of 3 though, which should be quite a lot.
101toss
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
3232 Posts
June 30 2012 01:33 GMT
#7
Probably a 4, beat someone who claimed to beat incontrol

funny how every example has incontrol
Math doesn't kill champions and neither do wards
nttea
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Sweden4353 Posts
June 30 2012 01:36 GMT
#8
this is now thread about everyone who has beaten incontrol
SnowFantasy
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
4173 Posts
June 30 2012 01:37 GMT
#9
On June 30 2012 10:33 101toss wrote:
Probably a 4, beat someone who claimed to beat incontrol

funny how every example has incontrol

Mine doesn't!
Peeano
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Netherlands5407 Posts
June 30 2012 01:38 GMT
#10
Featured? I'm lost.
Since when and why would JD ever practice with (P)iNcontroL?
FBH #1!
Salivanth
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Australia1071 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-30 01:40:36
June 30 2012 01:39 GMT
#11
What if you beat the person in SC2? What about Chess? Foot race? Pie-eating contest?

In each of those respectively, my Flash number is 93, 87, 72, and 1.
<@Wikt> so you are one of those nega-fans <@Wikt> that hates the company that makes a game and everything they stand for <@Wikt> but still plays the game <@Wikt> (like roughly 30% of blizzard's player base, maybe much more...)
SnowFantasy
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
4173 Posts
June 30 2012 01:41 GMT
#12
On June 30 2012 10:38 s.Q.uelched wrote:
Featured? I'm lost.
Since when and why would JD ever practice with (P)iNcontroL?


Jaedong didn't start bw as an S class progamer.
nttea
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Sweden4353 Posts
June 30 2012 01:44 GMT
#13
On June 30 2012 10:39 Salivanth wrote:
What if you beat the person in SC2? What about Chess? Foot race? Pie-eating contest?

In each of those respectively, my Flash number is 93, 87, 72, and 1.

there's no way you beat flash in a pie eating contest
7mk
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Germany10157 Posts
June 30 2012 01:45 GMT
#14
either 3 or 4 i would guess, without involving incontrol
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Hinanawi
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States2250 Posts
June 30 2012 01:54 GMT
#15
I imagine mine would be either infinite or nonexistant. I never did get above D+ on iccup, so I doubt I ever beat anybody who ever beat anybody who ever beat anybody (...) who beat Flash.
Favorite progamers (in order): Flash, Stork, Violet, Sea. ||| Get better soon, Violet!
Grobyc
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Canada18410 Posts
June 30 2012 01:56 GMT
#16
I can't say with 100% certainty, but I'm quite sure it's a 3.
If you watch Godzilla backwards it's about a benevolent lizard who helps rebuild a city and then moonwalks into the ocean.
Empyrean
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
17056 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-30 01:58:38
June 30 2012 01:57 GMT
#17
On June 30 2012 10:56 Grobyc wrote:
I can't say with 100% certainty, but I'm quite sure it's a 3.


You've beaten incontrol?

I imagine mine would be either infinite or nonexistant. I never did get above D+ on iccup, so I doubt I ever beat anybody who ever beat anybody who ever beat anybody (...) who beat Flash.


I'm going to guess 5 or at most 6. The thing about the way the Flash number is being defined is that if you've beaten someone even just once, that counts as a connection.
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n.DieJokes
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States3443 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-30 02:01:35
June 30 2012 01:58 GMT
#18
Did Incontrol really beat Jaedong once? I know zvz is volatile but that's a pretty impressive accomplishment, everyone knows mondi once beat sea, why haven't I heard this?
p.s. anyone who's beaten desrow has a FlaSh number of two not that its nearly as impressive
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Carnivorous Sheep
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Baa?21244 Posts
June 30 2012 02:13 GMT
#19
This has turned into "what's your incontrol number" lulz
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P7GAB
Profile Joined June 2012
Canada486 Posts
June 30 2012 02:23 GMT
#20
this thread lol... it goes from broodwar bonjwa's to incontrol (im not saying incontrol is bad, just not on the same level as jd or flash) way to quickly
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