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2 points by Amanjeev 10 years ago · 1 comment

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ColinWright 10 years ago

I wrote something about this some years ago, and in particular, connected it to the question/problem of clashes when generating (hopefully) UIDs.

http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/TheBirthdayParadox.html?HN_201...

This submitted wikipedia link is more complete, but I hope mine is more readable as an introduction to the question.

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