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Comment by adrianN

5 days ago

You only need about 33 bits of information to uniquely identify every human.

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DennisP  4 days ago

Ideally, but in practice only if the bits are uncorrelated and each divides the population in half.

  • adrianN  2 days ago

    You typically collect kilobytes of information though.

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