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		xyst 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Every V4 UUID Every uuid dot com except if greater than 2^122 -1 doesn’t have the same ring ;)

anamexis 11 months ago [–]

There aren't more than 2^122 UUIDv4s.

hikarikuen 11 months ago | [–]

This reminds me of some code I stumbled on recently, where someone had implemented a custom exception they could throw if their 32-bit loop counter was greater than the maximum value of a 32-bit integer.

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