1Kleeny / Kleine / Kleene (transliteration of a Western surname)
2most prominently the American mathematician Stephen Cole Kleene (斯蒂芬·克莱尼, 1909–1994), founder of recursion theory and namesake of the 'Kleene star' in regular expressions
Zhèngzé biǎodáshì lǐ de xīnghào jiàozuò Kèláiní xīnghào.
The asterisk in regular expressions is called the Kleene star.
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Most likely the American mathematician Stephen Cole Kleene — co-creator of recursive function theory alongside Church and Turing, and the 'K' behind every regex 'a*' you ever wrote (the Kleene star). His name is pronounced KLAY-nee in English, which is what 克莱尼 captures.
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克 'kè' (a workhorse foreign-name 'k' character, also in 克拉克 Clark, 麦克 Mike) + 莱 'lái' (the standard 'lay' syllable, also in 莱因河 the Rhine) + 尼 'ní' (the universal '-ny/-ni' tail, as in 尼克松 Nixon).
