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To: JayPC who wrote (194)	2/4/2005 12:14:22 PM
From: Cisco	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 228

Thanks for the input. You can go play some golf now! I won't ask what the odds of you making a hole in one are.<g>

To: JayPC who wrote (194)	2/5/2005 3:01:04 PM
From: Allan C.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 228

One thing to consider is that the distribution of letters in names is not uniform. There are a lot more names that start with r than x. It would be impossible to quantify this distribution exactly, but it could be estimated statistically. So you would need to adjust the probability of occurrence from 1/26 to whatever it is for that particular letter. So if the name in question had rare letters, the probability of it occurring at random would be lower, and common letters would happen more often.