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That reminds me; while I tend to remember techniques and equations easily enough, my software has a bug where people with similar occupations and similar initials are easily confused with one another, even if they look very different from one another.
I think the classic example was the time I mistook Britney Spears for Beyonce.
This may be more common than you think.
I know two women who are close friends and whose first names begin with the same uncommon letter. One is white, the other is black. One was plump, the other was slender (they've converged to some extent since, but I'm talking about a while ago). One has a loud voice, and the other a soft voice.
People would confuse them with each other.