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by ryzvonusef 1038 days ago
I was doing a coursera project and it kept raising duplicates from what I thought were random strings of numbers and characters and therefore should be unique, took me a while to figure out what was happening:

https://sites.google.com/view/ryzvonusef/process

Wasted a week's worth of effort, but I learnt a valuable lesson.

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Spoiler: Data read into Excel/Google sheets was interpreted as scientific notation, this caused uniqueness errors.