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small ruby script generating names similar to those generated by the algorithm used on Anarres, the desert planet of the exile anarchists, in the 'ambiguous utopia' 'The Dispossessed' by Ursula K. Le Guin.

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Generator for genderneutral names

On Anarres, the planet inhabited by anarchists, in the great ambiguous utopia by Ursula K. Le Guin, every human gets a random computer generated name. This name is unique during lifetime and thus can be used to identify. They use only these names, no id-numbers, no titles and no hints on gender.

Zrajm C Akfohg did an awesome analysis http://zrajm.org/nerd/pravic/ of the name patterns and the amount of possible names. I adopted the algorithm a version similar to the one without extrapolation described there.

The script can be called by

ruby namesGenerator.rb

It generates 10 names for each run.

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small ruby script generating names similar to those generated by the algorithm used on Anarres, the desert planet of the exile anarchists, in the 'ambiguous utopia' 'The Dispossessed' by Ursula K. Le Guin.

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