I haven’t looked at it in awhile, but wanted to answer a question, so I opened it up. The image you see here shows the Power 100 group of SBOEID and CID numbers from one NY county. The column highlighted in red are the decimalized version of CID numbers. I had to transform the CID numbers like that so they would sort correctly for the Spiral algorithm.
Ever since I discovered the decimalized numbers, I wondered why certain numbers started with 10, others with 100, or 1,000, 10,000, 100,000, or 1,000,000. This evening, I converted the numbers to hexadecimal values and I saw something that I should have seen before the conversion: the power of the CID number is related to the registration date.
In this group of numbers, every number that starts with 100,000 is a 1980 registration date. Numbers that start with 1,000,000 are all 2007 registration dates. The one number that starts with 10,000 is a 1996 registration date. These correlations are mostly consistent throughout all the numbers in this county.
By “mostly” consistent, I mean that there are more years and dates represented than are visible in this image, but they are consistent in that there are hard breaks between one power set of numbers starts and ends and the dates contained in those ranges.
What does this mean? The lower the CID number, the earlier the registration date? It seems that way, but not quite.
Here you see each power of 10 CID number isolated. Of some interest, though this was already known, they are also the first 6 CID numbers, after decimalization. The Spiral doesn’t work unless these numbers are the first 6, in this order. The Registration dates, however, are inconsistent with each other, though consistent with the first image. CID 100,000 is missing btw, or it would be in this group.
A closer look reveals that the HIGHEST CID numbers in each power group have the earliest registration dates. Meaning, they are assigned backwards. Also, a look at the above illustration shows that the registration dates and CID number power group aren’t in order either. They go from 1995 to 2000 back to 1993, forward to 1996, back to 1980, and then to 2007.
I haven’t worked out why this is yet, but wanted to share since it’s the first new thing I’ve found in the Spiral for a few months.
There are these two substack posts:
https://zarkfiles.substack.com/p/clone-records-not-uniformly-distributed
https://zarkfiles.substack.com/p/macro-view-of-the-four
Both posts are available to subscribers with a paid subscription. Dr. Zark is an awesome human being and deserves our support imho.
There is this old post from a magazine with good comments as well (it defines SBOEIDs, etc.):
tinyurl.com/HowNYvotesWayback
There is also this old follow up post:
tinyurl.com/HowNYvotes2Wayback
With great appreciation for you!