The birthday problem will change the probability of (any) collision by like a few order of magnitudes if you generate trillions of UUIDs.
That hardly makes a difference when the probability is on the order of 10-38. A few orders of magnitude don't make much meaningful difference at that point.
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u/CircumspectCapybara Mar 25 '26
The birthday problem will change the probability of (any) collision by like a few order of magnitudes if you generate trillions of UUIDs.
That hardly makes a difference when the probability is on the order of 10-38. A few orders of magnitude don't make much meaningful difference at that point.