Mathematician Bobby Piton Finds More Than 500,000 Unique Last Names in Pennsylvania: ‘Sophisticated State Actor Was Able to Optimize Desired Outcome’

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[–]C3P0 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Well, last time I scraped Webster's dictionary, in the English language there are only:

  • 56,836 words
  • 15,756 adjectives
  • 3,160 adverbs
  • 31,846 nouns
  • 4,992 verbs

with some exclusions such as hyphenated words, chemical compounds, jargon, similar verb conjugations, etc.

So I find it hard to believe there are 500,000 names. Especially considering the US census reported 151,671 unique last names in 2000.

[–]ChaosAardvark 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

And I wonder how that accounts for super-common last names. If "500,000 unique last names" sounds scary, imagine if it had read "10,000,000 votes all from one family!"