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Re:The birthday paradox in action: calculating the probabili... by Dylan16807 on Wednesday November 07, 2012 @01:26PM (#4754504)
You would expect about 1 per unflawed hash function tested. But the law of averages is less powerful when you focus on a specific hash. The chance of having no fixed points in a particular unflawed hash is 1/e, so there is probably a fixed point, and possibly more than one.

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