Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 10:33:54 10/20/99
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On October 19, 1999 at 17:14:41, Ratko V Tomic wrote: >> In Spanish speaking countries, we have two family names. The first >> one is taken from the father and the second from the mother. > I will not name any son of mine after me (José de Jesús), but if I >> do it will be very unlikely that our full names match (unless I >> happen to marry a lady whose first family name is 'Ruvalcaba', which >> is not a common name here). I.e. his name would be José de Jesús >> García -here you put his mother's first family name-. > >Won't that produce an exponential family name length growth with a >branching factor = 2. Do any beta cutoffs or forward pruning occur? >Or if there are 1 million initial last names, after twenty or so >generation everyone in the country has the same 1 million last >name components, just permuted differently. (Or maybe everyone will be >just de Adam dela Eve?) Usually, children are given the first family name of the father and then the first family name of the mother. There second family name of each parent is forward pruned. José.
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