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HMMT November 2010 U36

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Paul Erdős was one of the most prolific mathematicians of all time and was renowned for his many collaborations. The Erdős number of a mathematician is defined as follows. Erdős has an Erdős number of 0, a mathematician who has coauthored a paper with Erdős has an Erdős number of 1, a mathematician who has not coauthored a paper with Erdős, but has coauthored a paper with a mathematician with Erdős number 1 has an Erdős number of 2, etc. If no such chain exists between Erdős and another mathematician, that mathematician has an Erdős number of infinity. Of the mathematicians with a finite Erdős number (including those who are no longer alive), what is their average Erdős number according to the Erdős Number Project? If the correct answer is XX and you write down AA, your team will receive max⁡(25−⌊100∣X−A∣⌋,0)\max (25-\lfloor 100|X-A|\rfloor, 0) points where ⌊x⌋\lfloor x\rfloor is the largest integer less than or equal to xx.

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