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The post qualified as <= 10,000,000 total records. For that number of records, there's about a chance of about 0.00001 that you get a collision, assuming good r
by jeff-davis 5y ago
The post qualified as <= 10,000,000 total records. For that number of records, there's about a chance of about 0.00001 that you get a collision, assuming good randomness.
- kstrauser 5y agoSure, but stuff always grows, and the experiment gets run a bunch of times. Why not go with the built-in solution and then not have to worry about it?
- jeff-davis 5y agoI'm just answering the poster's question directly; but in the general case, I agree with you. The cognitive overhead of dealing with the various "what ifs" usually aren't worth the couple bytes or cycles that you could save.