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Re:The SHA256 for this sentence begins with: one, eight, two... by awegio on Monday September 11, 2023 @05:25PM (#37473930)
> There's exactly one hit

There are N possible sequences, and you try N times with a success probability of 1/N each (because it is a good hash function). This means the expected number of hits is 1.

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Re:The SHA256 for this sentence begins with: one, eight, two... by thehappypm on Monday September 11, 2023 @07:25PM (#37475039)
The probability is 1/e
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Re:The SHA256 for this sentence begins with: one, eight, two... by Dylan16807 on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @01:44AM (#37477258)
The probability of missing is 1/e
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