Should you use a person's name as a key?

• 10,000 people named Wang Wang in Beijing.

• 100,000 people named Ivan Ivanov Ivanovich in Russia.

• 18 people (both sexes) with the same Chinese name at UT, 4 of them in CS and Computational Math.

Clearly, names do not make unique keys.

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