Re:The birthday paradox in action: calculating the probabili...
by viraptor on Wednesday November 07, 2012 @12:08PM
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It is a huge number. Of course the fun part is that after precisely calculating that probability and proving that we don't have anything to worry about, the next commit we make could collide... and it will be the only git collision within the history of human race.
Probabilities are fun, because anything non-zero is non-zero ;) (I don't expect to ever witness a git hash collision of course)
Probabilities are fun, because anything non-zero is non-zero ;) (I don't expect to ever witness a git hash collision of course)