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Re:Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision... by sporkland on Saturday May 09, 2026 @09:36AM (#48074864)
I was doubting this for a minute as I wondered with a significantly biased coin towards the head side would you be more likely to get HT. With probability problems like Monty Hall I like to think about extreme cases like say it's 99 heads to every 1 tails. You'd expect HT 0.99% of the time. Ditto TH.
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Re:Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision... by dash2 on Saturday May 09, 2026 @10:03AM (#48075078)
You can’t flip coins until you get the first different outcome… You have to flip twice each time, until you get a pair with different outcomes.
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