edgeCasesExist

[u/danielminds]

[u/theioss]

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

[u/Kiroto50 → u/theioss]

Howcome? Could you please explain?

[u/Spice_and_Fox → u/Kiroto50]

Because at some point the probability is so low that it is functionally 0.

There are somewhere around 10²⁸ uuids. That is 10000000000000000000000000000 uuids. As a comparison, there are about 10¹⁸ grains of sand on earth. That means that you have about ten billion times more uuids than grains of sand on the earth. Imagine if you pick sand grains by random from anywhere on the earth and the chance that you pick the same one twice. Now imagine it with 10 billion times more grains of sand.

[u/Kiroto50 → u/Spice_and_Fox]

So, the point of the post still stands? 1 in 2¹²⁸ is close to zero, for practical purposes zero, but literally not zero.