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Dylan16807 on July 28, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Building and operating a pretty big storage system...

Birthday paradox. The number of opportunities to collide is the number of items squared. (Divided by two and a smidge)

danielmarkbruce on July 28, 2023 [–]

Lol. I must be brain dead. Yes.

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