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> For common names and large cities, probably not. Would be interesting to see statistics for that. It wouldn't be New York in this case, but for example Brook
by dx034 9y ago
> For common names and large cities, probably not.
Would be interesting to see statistics for that. It wouldn't be New York in this case, but for example Brooklyn or Queens. Even for the most popular name combinations, the number of people with the same name born on one day in one administrative area will be extremely low. Esp if you require middle names to be included.
- tripzilch 9y agoOr you can just use a number. Because unlike names, you can assume one thing about individuals in a population and that is that they are countable. You still just need 33 bits of information to identify any human on the planet, anyway. (post-singularity, evolved into an ever-merging amorphous network of consciousnesses, we can use multidimensional fractal subsets of R^n, but we'll cross that bridge when we get there)