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There's only 1440 minutes in a day. So there's almost 10 quotes for each possible minute to display (assuming an even enough distribution). Even if you check t
by bigiain 2y ago
There's only 1440 minutes in a day. So there's almost 10 quotes for each possible minute to display (assuming an even enough distribution).
Even if you check the time a lot - I guess I probably check the time 3 or 4 times every day between 9:20 and my regular 9:30am meeting - it'll probably be ~15 days before I hot a duplicate quote. That feels like "enough" to me?
- gwern 2y agoI'm not sure your math there on the birthday paradox is right (you only check the time during a single 10 minute range every day, no matter what? and you wouldn't look at it out of curiosity or for the pleasure of seeing a new quote?), but 15 days to the first collision doesn't seem like that long to me, for a piece of furniture that one would expect to be good for years to come and which costs $200+. And note that the number will go up rapidly from whenever the first expected collision is: only 10 quotes per minute means you're going to see a lot of duplicates after a few hundred days.