The usual headline is that 33 is the rarest Life Path, about half a percent. Half a percent of what, reduced in which order? Change the order, to another convention inside the same master-preserving school, and 33 turns up 2,186 times instead of 393. Same rule, same dates, 5.6x.
Life Path is a digit-reduction rule mapping a birth date to a small integer. It predicts nothing. But it is a deterministic function over a finite domain, which means you never have to sample it. You can just run the whole thing. We did: every date from 1900-01-01 to 2099-12-31, exactly 73,049 dates.
The other result is duller and it goes first, because it disarms most of what gets written about this distribution. Six of the twelve values land within four dates of each other, near one ninth apiece. That is not a discovery. That is mod 9.
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