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Re:Git's initial commit by MichaelGG on Sunday November 23, 2014 @09:29PM (#8650780)

The number of inputs before a likely collision is more on the order of 2^80. Which is still pretty large.

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Re:Git's initial commit by meowface on Sunday November 23, 2014 @09:33PM (#8650793)

True, the birthday paradox definitely makes it a lot more likely, but as you say the odds should still be too low.

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Re:Git's initial commit by thret on Monday November 24, 2014 @02:20AM (#8651386)

This is comparable to the number of atoms in the universe. Pretty large! We will never see an accidental collision.

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Re:Git's initial commit by zxcdw on Monday November 24, 2014 @06:36AM (#8651932)

Not quite, atoms in the universe is in the range of 10^80, which is a bit less than 2^266.

On the other hand, 2^80 is "only" approx. 1.2 * 10^24. Still, good luck colliding with that without big effort.

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