Question: We can measure how good a center Kevin Bacon is by computing each performer's Hollywood number or average path length. The Hollywood number of Kevin

We can measure how good a center Kevin Bacon is by computing each performer's Hollywood number or average path length. The Hollywood number of Kevin Bacon is the average Bacon number of all the performers (in its connected component). The Hollywood number of another performer is computed the same way, making that performer the source instead of Kevin Bacon. Compute Kevin Bacon's Hollywood number and find a performer with a better Hollywood number than Kevin Bacon. Find the performers (in the same connected component as Kevin Bacon) with the best and worst Hollywood numbers.

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