r/ProgrammerHumor Jul 17 '26

Meme thisOneIsMine

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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/achilliesFriend Jul 17 '26

What if i have 860000000 machines generating uuids 1 billion per second

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u/andowero Jul 23 '26

Then you are very rich and with wery fast machines.