{"id":292,"date":"2013-07-09T04:03:24","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T04:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/?p=292"},"modified":"2013-07-09T04:07:38","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T04:07:38","slug":"pangram-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/2013\/07\/09\/pangram-names\/","title":{"rendered":"Pangram Names"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I released my list of famous names<\/a> the other day, and as promised the first thing I did was to try to beat 35 in the Gaffney-Gordon pangram challenge. If you’re not familiar with that challenge, here’s a little backstory (spoilers abound):
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\nWay back when, Matt wrote a puzzle where the answer was three famous names who combined were pangrammatic and consisted only of 36 letters. A few weeks ago, Peter Gordon did the same, except his names combined for only 35 letters. The natural thought is: can we beat 35?<\/p>\n

I wrote a script<\/a> to go through my list of names to look for such pangrams. A brute force search would have taken too long so I made the assumption that one celebrity would have a X in his name and another would have a Q (quick: what’s the most famous person with both?) Once I have both those names, I scan for the most unlikely remaining pair of letters and see if any celebrity with those letters can combine with the first two celebrities to make a pangram. I like the way the code turned out; check it out if you’re into that kind of thing.<\/p>\n

But you probably just care about the results, so here is everything the program spit out of length 36 or less:<\/p>\n

36 -- JACI VELASQUEZ \/ ANDY ROXBURGH \/ TOM WEISKOPF\r\n35 -- JACQUES LIPCHITZ \/ FOXY BROWN \/ DAVE KINGMAN\r\n36 -- JACQUES LIPCHITZ \/ MAX VON SYDOW \/ FRANK BURGE\r\n36 -- JACQUES LIPCHITZ \/ MAX VON SYDOW \/ FRANK BOUGH\r\n35 -- DIEGO VELAZQUEZ \/ FOXY BROWN \/ JACK THOMPSON\r\n36 -- DIEGO VELAZQUEZ \/ JOHN COX BRAY \/ TOM WEISKOPF\r\n36 -- JOEY MARQUEZ \/ ALEX BOGDANOVIC \/ TEWFIK PASHA\r\n35 -- SAYYID QUTB \/ GAVIN MAXWELL \/ JOZSEF KIPRICH\r\n35 -- SAYYID QUTB \/ XAVER SCHARWENKA \/ JOZEF GLEMP\r\n36 -- JACQUES BARZUN \/ FELIX POTVIN \/ DWIGHT YOAKAM\r\n35 -- WILFREDO VAZQUEZ \/ MAX BOYCE \/ JE TSONGKHAPA\r\n35 -- FRED QUIMBY \/ WANG SHIXIAN \/ ZELJKO PETROVIC\r\n36 -- JACQUES GODBOUT \/ FRANZ WAXMAN \/ PHIL VICKERY<\/pre>\n
You’ll notice that Matt’s and Peter’s are in there, which is a good sign.  The others are kinda bad, except for one that passes muster: JACQUES LIPCHITZ<\/a> \/ FOXY BROWN<\/a> \/ DAVE KINGMAN<\/a>.  What do you think — is it as good as Peter’s and Matt’s?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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