On 11/2/07, Abhijit Menon-Sen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 2007-11-02 22:17:59 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Looking at this analytically, it seems that after a person is old
> > enough you should be able to look at their lives and back compute when
> > their moment of birth must have been, given the events in their lives.
>
> Why? It could be a one-way function.
Which would imply that two babies born within minutes of each other in
the same hospital (to correct for geographical variations in
astrological "forces" exerted by the 9 "planets") should have the same
general sort of Life.
Also, if these one-way functions were like MD5 or SHA-1 algorithms, I
should be able to take 2 people who have had similar lives (socially,
economically, etc.) for the last couple of years and be able to say
that they were born very very close to each other in time. It may be
that these one-way functions are not very good at avoiding clashes.
S.
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