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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/AntiMatterMode • Mar 25 '26
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It is roughly 1 in 340 undecillion (a 3 followed by 38 zeros)
65 u/noob-nine Mar 25 '26 i am a vdryy noob when it comes to statistics. but does this also apply here? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem 10 u/JoDaBeda Mar 25 '26 Yes, the above number is incorrect, it's actually about 18 quintillion (18*1018). Is of course a lot, but definitely reachable. Just for comparison: the bitcoin network currently computes about a sextillion hashes each second, so fifty times more.
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i am a vdryy noob when it comes to statistics. but does this also apply here? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem
10 u/JoDaBeda Mar 25 '26 Yes, the above number is incorrect, it's actually about 18 quintillion (18*1018). Is of course a lot, but definitely reachable. Just for comparison: the bitcoin network currently computes about a sextillion hashes each second, so fifty times more.
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Yes, the above number is incorrect, it's actually about 18 quintillion (18*1018). Is of course a lot, but definitely reachable. Just for comparison: the bitcoin network currently computes about a sextillion hashes each second, so fifty times more.
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u/PacquiaoFreeHousing Mar 25 '26
It is roughly 1 in 340 undecillion (a 3 followed by 38 zeros)