To save you some time: from the title I thought it would be some sophisticated statistical modeling, or cracking crypto, or something else that involves nontriv

To save you some time: from the title I thought it would be some sophisticated statistical modeling, or cracking crypto, or something else that involves nontrivial math. Which would be interesting. What actually happened, obfuscated by tons of useless filler: death certificates are public on civil registry website, accessible by a sequential ID starting from 1, so all it takes is a binary search for what is essentially max(rowid).