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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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