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Originally Posted by Dr4z3r
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So what you're saying is that "Cptnplnt" is preferable to the alternatives?
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Let's look at four-lettered permutations, or possible names. There are 26 letters in the alphabet, and each slot can be filled with one letter.
____ _____ _____ _____
If we assume letters can be repeated (like the name Fizz, one of my favorite wizards), then there are 26 choices for each slot.
__26__ __26__ __26__ __26__
Multiplying these together (multiplication axiom of choice), we get 26^4.
Some of those are inappropriate, so a bit less than that, but more importantly most are plain gibberish, like Xcdg, Oaii, and Txjq. For five-lettered names, the are 26^5 choices, and so on.
The question becomes how many possible names are there in total? For us to answer that, we have to know the restriction on the longest name, which should be 2^4-1, or 15 letters. So we have to sum up:
26
26^2
26^3
26^4
....
26^14
26^15
It's a geometric sequence, of which the series sums to 26(1-26^15)/(1-26).
This is 1,744,349,715,977,154,962,390 names. If 100,000 or so are taken, that still leaves quite a bit of room to name your character.
Xaxian