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Re:The birthday paradox in action: calculating the probabili... by bigiain on Wednesday November 07, 2012 @05:26PM (#4755482)
Hmmm, I wonder how many objects are currently stored in S3? And what rate that's rowing at? Or how many documents Google has stored in bigtable?

But yeah, 160 bits is probably "enough" :-)

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