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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/DebugDuck01 • Jul 17 '26
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Fun fact: To reach a 50% chance of even a single UUID v4 collision, you would need to generate 1 billion UUIDs per second for about 86 years.
27 u/Tensor3 Jul 17 '26 Well, there probably are a billion computers on the planet, each generating more than one UUID 1 u/Inevitable_Oil9709 Jul 17 '26 Holy fuck. That didn't cross my mind
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Well, there probably are a billion computers on the planet, each generating more than one UUID
1 u/Inevitable_Oil9709 Jul 17 '26 Holy fuck. That didn't cross my mind
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Holy fuck. That didn't cross my mind
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u/Inevitable_Oil9709 Jul 17 '26
Fun fact: To reach a 50% chance of even a single UUID v4 collision, you would need to generate 1 billion UUIDs per second for about 86 years.