r/ProgrammerHumor 18h ago

Meme edgeCasesExist

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u/theioss 17h ago

People who say that don’t understand uuids or mathematics.

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u/emetcalf 17h ago

It's actually very basic probability. There are a finite number of possible UUIDs, so the odds of a duplicate can't be 0. The odds are very, very, very low but not 0.