[drizzleRomanceGirl]

Originally Posted by the sun fan

The specific answer is something like "no two people have ever been found to have the same fingerprints"

so, I suppose that at least leaves the door open for the possibility that some people might be found to

that being said, no, not even identical twins have the same fingerprints despite having the same DNA

oh i see; thank you very much

Originally Posted by Matthia

Whenever something is brought up that involves making comparisons or contrasts among a certain population, I tend to take quantum levels into consideration. That being said, at a microscopic level, everything is different (iow, each item of the same type, like apples for instance, has a slightly different end-result structure of how it grew and is thus unique). Same applies to fingerprints, although it's extremely obvious that "nothing that has happened before will happen again with 100% accuracy and recreation".

I feel these kinds of questions need a definite variable of measurement when trying to settle down to a decision and come up with an answer. Like in terms of size, lengths, scaling, warping and etc., how closely related do these fingerprints need to be in order to consider them as "matching"?

i would say same design, but not necessarily the same size