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> Suppose that you assigned everyone an 19 digit number. What is the probability that two human beings would have the same number?

If I assigner the numbers, I would carefully print 8 billion or so slips with different numbers, and place them in an urn. For each person, I'd draw from the urn, and then the probability of me assigning the same number to two humans is related to IT failures during generation. How many dollar bills share a serial number unintentionally?

parent toast0 3 years ago

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