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Discussion on: Changing your name is a hard unsolved problem in Computer Science

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Leo Botinelly • Edited

Exactly - while I do understand the pre-2000s rationale for smaller field sizes, this is one of the 'compromises' that boggles my mind.

Composite family names ('Tessier-Ashpool') suffer a similar fate, operators picking one part at random.