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by crazylogger 41 days ago
For a single database using UUIDs, yes, it's astronomically rare. But it's quite a different thing to say that no computer system on Earth has ever experienced a UUID collision. The number of systems out there is also astronomical.
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>The number of systems out there is also astronomical.

Not even close

Sure it does. Planets are astronomical, and we only have 8 of those in our solar system.