Is fortune telling accurate or not? Eight characters can't be trusted, okay? Confused!

Pigeon Cave Principle and Computer Fortune-telling (reposted)

"Computer fortune telling" looks mysterious. As long as you report the year, month, day and sex of your birth, a so-called character and destiny will appear on the screen when you press the button. It is said that this is your "destiny".

In fact, this is just a computer game at best. We can easily use the pigeon hole principle in mathematics to illustrate its absurdity.

Pigeon hole principle, also known as pigeon cage principle or Dirichlet principle, is a special method to prove the existence in mathematics. For the simplest example, if you put three apples in two drawers in any way, there must be two or more apples in one drawer. This is because if there is at most one apple in each drawer, there are at most two apples in two drawers. Using the same reasoning, we can get:

Principle 1 If more than n objects are put into n drawers, at least one drawer has more than two objects.

Principle 2 If there are more than mn objects in N drawers, at least one drawer has more than m+ 1 or m+l objects.

If calculated in 70 years, the number of combinations with different sexes according to the date of birth should be 70× 365× 2 = 5 1 100, and we regard it as the number of drawers. The current population of China is 1 1 100 million, and we regard this figure as the number of "things". Because1.1× = 2 1526× 51/kloc-0+21400, according to principle 2, it is more than 21526, although

In ancient China, people knew how to use the pigeon hole principle to expose the fallacy of birth. For example, in Qing Dynasty, Chen Qiyuan wrote in Notes on Leisure Zhai: "I don't believe in the theory of pushing the stars, thinking that one person is born at a time (note: one hour, two hours), and twelve people are born in one day, which is 4,320 people in terms of age. Counting a Jia (note: 60 years), there are only 259,200 people. Today, only one county is counted. During this period, when the princes were born, there must be people born at the same time. What is the difference between the rich and the poor? " Here, a year is calculated as 360 days, and a day is divided into 12 hours, and the number of drawers obtained is 60× 360× 12 = 259200.

The so-called "computer fortune-telling" is nothing more than storing the manually compiled fortune-telling sentences in their respective cabinets in advance like Chinese medicine cabinets. Who wants to tell fortune, that is, according to the different combinations of birth date, date and gender, according to different codes, mechanically take out the so-called fate sentence from the computer cabinet. It is blasphemy to put the aura of modern science on the dead who were superstitious in ancient times.