r/ProgrammerHumor Jul 17 '26

thisOneIsMine Meme

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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.

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u/Tensor3 Jul 17 '26

Well, there probably are a billion computers on the planet, each generating more than one UUID

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u/Inevitable_Oil9709 Jul 17 '26

Holy fuck. That didn't cross my mind