A few weeks ago, an auction held at Ebay gave the winning bidder
40 hours of research time from an erstwhile graduate student.
The person in question has an Erdos Number of 4, so the winning bidder
would have an Erdos number of 5.
An Erdos number refers back to the number of links through coauthors on published papers needed to trace back the famously prolific Pal Erdos.
It turns out that the auction had an unusual denoument, as detailed in this article from Science News.
Georgia Tech students don't have to go to Ebay for this small piece of fame.
Professors Duke, Trotter, and Tetali are all among the 509 coauthors of Uncle Pal. Write a paper with one of them, and you'll join the nearly 7000 people with
an Erdos number of 2. More such facts can be found at the Erdos Number Project.