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by cbright 745 days ago
2^80 is about 10^24, which is a trillion trillion, not a billion trillion. So their estimate of a chance of a collision is off by a factor of 1000.
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Yeah otherwise there would be a bout a 1 in a thousand chance of a collision occurring when growing from 1B to 2B objects, right?