Billions of Code Name Permutations in 32 bits

My friend over at Possibly Wrong created a code name generator. By coincidence I happened to be thinking about code names myself while recently replaying XCOM: Enemy Within (2012/2013). The game generates a random code name for each mission, and I wondered how often it repeats. The UFOpaedia page on the topic gives the word lists: 53 adjectives and 76 nouns, for a total of 4028 possible code names. A typical game has around 60 missions, and if code names are generated naively on the fly, then pe...

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