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Comment by adrae5df

Can someone explain how the following calculation was done?

With 2¹³² possible values, if identifiers were randomly generated at the rate of one million per second for the next 300 years the chance of a collision would be roughly 1 in six billion.

I tries using the formula for the Birthday problem, but the values are too large.

parent adrae5df 11 years ago

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