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  • M mav octaval

    Which is the best data structure to hold data like this?

    -- Software Engineering

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    Prison?

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      :laugh:

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        Prison?

        Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."

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        mav octaval
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        No if the client was Woody Allen.

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        • M mav octaval

          I'm wondering if he was that guy from Amstetten...

          -- Software Engineering

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            Prison?

            Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."

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            To be fair, the point of family trees is to map out your family history rather than keep track of which current members of your family you are sticking it into. I am sure you do not have to go too far back in generations before there is a reasonable chance of finding similar situations.

            Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

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              To be fair, the point of family trees is to map out your family history rather than keep track of which current members of your family you are sticking it into. I am sure you do not have to go too far back in generations before there is a reasonable chance of finding similar situations.

              Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

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              mav octaval
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              Yes, and if you are a royal family member, your ancestor's tree can get rather convoluted.

              -- Software Engineering

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              • M mav octaval

                Yes, and if you are a royal family member, your ancestor's tree can get rather convoluted.

                -- Software Engineering

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                When I was looking into mine (I used genesreunited) someone got in touch because he thought he was a relative and let me look at the tree he had got so far and essentially the two main branches above him went out in a huge circle. Brother and sister a number of generations ago got married and had children, they and their children kept marrying and breeding until eventually a direct descendant of the sister married a direct descendant of the brother.

                Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

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                  Which is the best data structure to hold data like this?

                  -- Software Engineering

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                  I believe someone suggested something similar in the SO thread. The easiest update would be to add a 2nd object to represent the 2nd instance. And add a 2nd equality check method which by default returns false except when 2 objects represent the same person. Perhaps each object can have an internal list of other objects it's "humanly" identical to but "programatically" different from. This way the data structure as well as all the validation remains the same and yet the program functions normally.

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                  • M mav octaval

                    I'm wondering if he was that guy from Amstetten...

                    -- Software Engineering

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                    Or Alabama? :)

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                      Which is the best data structure to hold data like this?

                      -- Software Engineering

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                        When I was looking into mine (I used genesreunited) someone got in touch because he thought he was a relative and let me look at the tree he had got so far and essentially the two main branches above him went out in a huge circle. Brother and sister a number of generations ago got married and had children, they and their children kept marrying and breeding until eventually a direct descendant of the sister married a direct descendant of the brother.

                        Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

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                        Eventually something like that will happen to almost everyone's family tree once they trace their ancestors back into small farming villages. Population mobility wasn't high enough to prevent it.

                        3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18

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                        • M mav octaval

                          Which is the best data structure to hold data like this?

                          -- Software Engineering

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                          He started from an obviously flawed premise. The software should allow the user to do whatever he darn well pleases.

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                          • M mav octaval

                            Which is the best data structure to hold data like this?

                            -- Software Engineering

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                            well that does bring to mind the old joke about the family tree having no branches...

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                              He started from an obviously flawed premise. The software should allow the user to do whatever he darn well pleases.

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                              • M mav octaval

                                Which is the best data structure to hold data like this?

                                -- Software Engineering

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                                *sigh* Yet another programmer who can't handle recursion...

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                                  Eventually something like that will happen to almost everyone's family tree once they trace their ancestors back into small farming villages. Population mobility wasn't high enough to prevent it.

                                  3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18

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                                  wizardzz
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                                  If you go back 30 generations, your distinct number of ancestors will outnumber the world population at the time. All of this stuff is extremely interesting from a maths perspective.

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                                    *sigh* Yet another programmer who can't handle recursion...

                                    I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                                    mav octaval
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                                    In some cases applying recursion could produce a stack overflow.

                                    -- Software Engineering

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