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Every road in America, searched by the theme:

Algorithm Names

We searched every named street in America for Algorithm Names. 86 names turned up. A rare one we found is Shor Drive in Kenton County, KY.

3829 roads in 49 states are named after Algorithm Names

Louisiana is the densest

States have a different total number of roads, so we compare by a percent of roads.

1 out of every 1,460 roads in Louisiana resonates with this theme.

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Each dot is one county, sized by how many of its roads resonate with the theme. A small dot is a handful; a big one is hundreds.

Sizes are relative to this search: the biggest dot is this theme's busiest county, so a big dot here and a big dot in another theme are not the same number.

One of just 2 streets called BTC Lane

Bitcoin

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Rarely used names, across the whole country: the spotlight on the map is the one you are reading.

Every public street name in the country was counted against the theme's subjects. A name used three or fewer times nationwide is rare; these twelve are the rarest, starting with the ones Wikipedia can introduce.

The only Aes Road in America

Advanced Encryption Standard

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Rarely used names, across the whole country: the spotlight on the map is the one you are reading.

Every public street name in the country was counted against the theme's subjects. A name used three or fewer times nationwide is rare; these twelve are the rarest, starting with the ones Wikipedia can introduce.

One of just 3 streets called The Good Way

Parable of the Good Samaritan

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Rarely used names, across the whole country: the spotlight on the map is the one you are reading.

Every public street name in the country was counted against the theme's subjects. A name used three or fewer times nationwide is rare; these twelve are the rarest, starting with the ones Wikipedia can introduce.

The only Euclid's Way in America

Euclidean algorithm · possibly named for Euclid's algorithm

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Rarely used names, across the whole country: the spotlight on the map is the one you are reading.

Every public street name in the country was counted against the theme's subjects. A name used three or fewer times nationwide is rare; these twelve are the rarest, starting with the ones Wikipedia can introduce.

One of just 3 streets called Doge Road

Dogecoin

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Rarely used names, across the whole country: the spotlight on the map is the one you are reading.

Every public street name in the country was counted against the theme's subjects. A name used three or fewer times nationwide is rare; these twelve are the rarest, starting with the ones Wikipedia can introduce.

One of just 2 streets called Bfs Drive

Breadth-first search

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Rarely used names, across the whole country: the spotlight on the map is the one you are reading.

Every public street name in the country was counted against the theme's subjects. A name used three or fewer times nationwide is rare; these twelve are the rarest, starting with the ones Wikipedia can introduce.

The only Square Root in America

Fast inverse square root

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Rarely used names, across the whole country: the spotlight on the map is the one you are reading.

Every public street name in the country was counted against the theme's subjects. A name used three or fewer times nationwide is rare; these twelve are the rarest, starting with the ones Wikipedia can introduce.

The only West Stp Road in America

Spanning Tree Protocol

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Rarely used names, across the whole country: the spotlight on the map is the one you are reading.

Every public street name in the country was counted against the theme's subjects. A name used three or fewer times nationwide is rare; these twelve are the rarest, starting with the ones Wikipedia can introduce.

The only The Blind Trail in America

Blind men and an elephant · possibly named for parable of the blind men and an elephant

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Rarely used names, across the whole country: the spotlight on the map is the one you are reading.

Every public street name in the country was counted against the theme's subjects. A name used three or fewer times nationwide is rare; these twelve are the rarest, starting with the ones Wikipedia can introduce.

The only Shor Drive in America

Shor's algorithm

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Rarely used names, across the whole country: the spotlight on the map is the one you are reading.

Every public street name in the country was counted against the theme's subjects. A name used three or fewer times nationwide is rare; these twelve are the rarest, starting with the ones Wikipedia can introduce.

The only Des Lane in America

Data Encryption Standard

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Rarely used names, across the whole country: the spotlight on the map is the one you are reading.

Every public street name in the country was counted against the theme's subjects. A name used three or fewer times nationwide is rare; these twelve are the rarest, starting with the ones Wikipedia can introduce.

One of just 2 streets called Lost Sheep Lane

Parable of the Lost Sheep

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Rarely used names, across the whole country: the spotlight on the map is the one you are reading.

Every public street name in the country was counted against the theme's subjects. A name used three or fewer times nationwide is rare; these twelve are the rarest, starting with the ones Wikipedia can introduce.

2 streets exist only in Hancock County, ME

Fixed Point Lane

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Every name in the theme was counted against every other named road in the country. These appear exactly once: tap a thumbnail to walk them.

The county shown here holds the most of singular roads. Somebody named these roads, and nobody anywhere copied.

Most popular: BTC Lane

2 roads 2 counties ~6.4M views last year

Bitcoin

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

Most popular: Aes Road

1 road 1 county ~1.2M views last year

Advanced Encryption Standard

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

Most popular: Ether Way

12 roads 4 counties ~1.1M views last year

Ethereum

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

Most popular: Good Samaritan Way

22 roads 12 counties ~943.8k views last year

Parable of the Good Samaritan

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

Most popular: Doge Road

3 roads 2 counties ~583.4k views last year

Dogecoin

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

Least popular: Bleu Spur

7 roads 5 counties ~7.9k views last year

BLEU

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

Least popular: Cast Way

18 roads 9 counties ~13.5k views last year

CAST-128

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

Least popular: Red

442 roads 207 counties ~13.5k views last year

Random early detection

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

Least popular: Lucifer Street

1 road 1 county ~15.6k views last year

Lucifer (cipher)

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

Least popular: Skipjack

94 roads 54 counties ~15.9k views last year

Skipjack (cipher)

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

Least popular: Art Way

111 roads 81 counties ~17.1k views last year

Adaptive resonance theory

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

all but the most common: all the streets, minus the most common roads in the country. This lets us see the 'long tail' of interesting roads in the country.