On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Stephan Beal <sgb...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> i don't remember any numbers from that thread, but do remember one quote. > When (whoever it was, probably Richard) explained that The Math shows that > a collision is not likely to happen until some tens of thousands of years > in the future, someone asked, "but what then?" > > (Back-of-the-envelop calculations follow:) If 6 billion people are all using the same Fossil repository and are doing one commit per second, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, then there is a 50% chance of a collision after a little more than 6 million years. That same commit rate will cause Fossil to exceed its maximum repository size (140 terabytes) in about four minutes. -- D. Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org
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