Professor puzzles: My favorite factoring

August is puzzles; last week's answer is below in the notes.

This last puzzle is just a funny thing I've noticed: that sometimes parents cross not only their genes but their phonemes as well. They squish their names together.

So I'll give you the name of an actual baby (by now all adults) and you try to guess the parents' names. There are multiple plausible answers, but I'll tell you the actual parents next week.

Here's an example to get you started: Kira (KEER-uh). Answer below.

And two for next week: Ian (EE-un), and Ethan (EETH-un).

Robert Wellman Campbell, "Professor puzzles: My favorite factoring," RSS Longa, 22 August 2024, robbcampbell.com. This week's starter example: Kira's parents are Kerri and Lee. Last week's answer: I love maps and have used this fairly often at USGS and teaching GIS. A mile is 63,360 inches, so 1:63,360 is a common map scale, an inch on the map representing a mile on the ground. And with a leading zero it's a palindrome: 063360. And it's a good poem too, with that Whitmanesque vocative particle: "O Six Three! Three Sixty!"