On 2015-06-08 02:42, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 11:34 AM, <random...@fastmail.us> wrote:
In general, as the number of trials increases, the probability of having
e.g. at least one of each value never _reaches_ 1, but it gets
arbitrarily close.
And by "arbitrarily close", you mean any of:
I believe the word is "asymptotic".
* So close to 1.0 that IEEE double precision is unable to represent it
* So unlikely that you could perform one trial every nanosecond until
the heat death of the universe and still not expect to see it
* Less likely than that two files could accidentally collide on MD5,
SHA1, SHA256, and file size, simultaneously
I think all of the above are true of this case, though I have to guess
about the heat death of the universe.
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