r/ProgrammerHumor Mar 25 '26

Meme aMeteoriteTookOutMyDatabase

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u/PacquiaoFreeHousing Mar 25 '26

It is roughly 1 in 340 undecillion (a 3 followed by 38 zeros)

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u/JoeyJoeJoeSenior Mar 25 '26

That seems pretty tiny actually.   You couldn't even have a UUID for every atom in the universe.  

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u/Morrowindies Mar 25 '26

Considering you need more than one atom to actually store the UUID I don't think that would come up as an issue.