[Opensim-users] [Opensim-dev] Grid Numberging

[Sean Dague]

Dr Scofield wrote:
> Frisby, Adam wrote:
>> Shouldn’t UUIDs by definition be unique?
>>
>>  
>>
>> IE – if your generating them randomly a collision is almost guaranteed
>> to never ever occur.
> 
> "almost" being a key word here...

"...after generating 1 billion UUIDs every second for the next 100
years, the probability of creating just one duplicate would be about
50%. The probability of one duplicate would be about 50% if every person
on earth owns 600 million UUIDs."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uuid

Just to keep "almost" in perspective,

	-Sean

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http://dague.net


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