Formal math & probability is something I'm trained in. that being said, intuitively this sounds off to me... The youtube ID pool is closer to 7.4e19, not 1.8e1

Formal math & probability is something I'm trained in. that being said, intuitively this sounds off to me... The youtube ID pool is closer to 7.4e19, not 1.8e19. I'm not a math expert and my probability is quite weak. If you assume generously that 1 trillion IDs have been taken, the percent of IDs that are in use is 1e12/7.4e19, then 0.0000000135% of available IDs have been taken. Getting a single video at 1 megatry per second would take something more like 2 hours, not 20 seconds.