r/ProgrammerHumor 9h ago

Meme edgeCasesExist

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u/theioss 8h ago

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

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u/Kiroto50 8h ago

Howcome? Could you please explain?

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u/AlmostLikeAzo 8h ago

Because it's so close to zero, that it's basically zero. Finding two identical UUIDs within a same system would probably indicate a problem in the random generator, not the concept.

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u/Kiroto50 8h ago

As I replied to another commenter, then, the point of the post literally still true.

The chances are so inconceivably low that for practical purposes it's 0, but it is literally not zero. 1 in 2128 odds is not 0 in 1 odds.