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Old 03-31-2011, 09:20 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Apparently I'm so un-anagramable that it doesn't even bother.

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Jinn's anagram name is
I suppose there's really only what.. 4! possibilities? Right? 24?

EDIT:

Looked it up, with a repeated letter, the number of anagrams is reduced.. it's 4! / 2! = 12 possibilities.

As an exercise, wrote them all out.. boorrrrrring

Jinn

Jnin
Jnni

Ninj
Nijn

Nnji
Nnij

Njin
Njni

Ijnn
Injn
Ijnn

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As an aside, I considered the likelihood of someone dedicated reverse-engineering Redlemon's entry and retrieving his actual name, and I'm kinda a nerd for computability.


EMETICALLYWARMHEDONISM is 22 characters, so upper limit of calculations is 22!.

However, there are a number of repeated letters:

E E E
T
I I
C
L L
Y
W
A A
R
H
D
O
N
S
M M M

Leaving us 22! / 3! * 1! * 2! * 1! * 2! * 1! * 1! * 2! * 1! * 1! * 1! * 1! * 1! * 1! * 3!

Which simplifies to 22! / 3! * 2 * 2 * 2 * 3! or 22! / 288 =

3,902,780,304,783,360,000

Even making some assumptions about length of anagram words (>2 letters, with notable exceptions like Le, Hu, Ha, etc) and number of words (2 or 3), it's academically but not pragmatically computable. You could write an algorithm that spit out 'likely' 2 and 3 word anagrams with greater than 4 letters that have matches against a first name in boy/girl birth name popularity database but you'd still need a human to ascertain if the middle and last names seemed relevant.

And after all of that, you'd still not know with 100% certainty because in a data set that large (3 quintillion?) you are likely to hit quite a few that are full proper names.
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