Sorry if this is silly but if it is a 128 bit number, why do we need 32 characters to represent it? Isn't 8 bits one byte?
On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 8:08 PM Thomas Kellerer <sham...@gmx.net> wrote: > Hemil Ruparel schrieb am 07.10.2020 um 16:21: > > it is declared as uuid. But how does it occupy only 16 bytes? > > Because a UUID is internally simply a 128bit number - the dashes you see > are just formatting. > > But if you can only send the text represnation, then yes 32 characters > aren't enough. > > >
