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rycfan
on Jan 18, 2016
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Probability of GUID collisions with different vers...
True, but that's for a 50% chance of a collision. In a single system, even a 1% chance of a collision is bad news.
skrebbel
on Jan 18, 2016
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I can't do the math on my phone, but getting to a 1% chance
still
needs an enormous unfathomable bucketload of uuids.
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