Each person on earth would have to own 600 million GUIDs for there to be a 50% chance of a collision.
-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Fri, 24 Jul 2015, at 06:30 PM, Ken Dibble wrote: > > >Somewhere hiding in the registry, some GUID is incorrectly > >associated with the VFP install. How that can happen is a mystery > >that only a Microsoft engineer can explain. > > Well I have an explanation--but I'm sure everyone here will laugh. > > GUID-generation is based on the notion that it is "highly unlikely" > or "extremely improbable" that two generation processes will get the > same result. But it is NOT mathematically impossible. > > Yes, it's highly unlikely that if you flip a coin 10 times the first > 9 times you will get "heads". But it happens nonetheless, sometimes. > > So maybe once in a while the cold hard reality that high > improbability <> impossibility bites somebody. > > Ken Dibble > www.stic-cil.org > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
