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It’s unlikely to have ever happened.
2^42 is 25 times the total number of people ever born in all of history.
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Fingerprints aren’t genetically coded, and clones wouldn’t have the same fingerprints, either.
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I typically associate “clone” with “an exact copy”, with the same exact molecular layout and even thoughts. So a literal exact copy. Clones on a DNA basis, so something possible for years, would indeed be different in some details.
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getting correct within a factor of 2 after a 42-fold exponentiation would be amazingly good mental math
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