Re: [XPOST] A unique number for every "person" - can it be done?

From: TGOS (tgos_at_invalid.invalid)
Date: 02/28/05 

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 23:03:41 +0100

On 27 Feb 2005 23:45:09 GMT rusin@vesuvius.math.niu.edu (Dave Rusin)
wrote in comp.programming:

> Combining these guesstimates puts an upper bound well short of 10^68
> for the number of humans there will ever be, and the hypotheses necessary
> to get anywhere close to that are frankly ridiculous. If every person
> were assigned a 100-digit number there would never, ever be need to
> have duplicate numbers.

Maybe, but now assign the numbers uniquely, without any dupes and
without recording anywhere which numbers you already assigned. Not easy
;) 

-- 
TGOS

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