On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 12:15:49AM -0700, Mr.Bad wrote: > >>>>> "SGM" == Scott G Miller <scgmille at indiana.edu> writes: > > SGM> 1 in 2^160. > > OK, so, about the same probability of all particles in the universe > coalescing in one point in space at the same time.
No, much smaller than that. I'm actually wrong anyway, the chances of two documents hashing to the same value is 1 in 2^80. So its large, but not completely improbable. We'll start seeing the problem when there are about 2^80 distinct documents. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20010406/c767c037/attachment.pgp>
