On Jan 6, 2011, at 1:52 AM, Stuart Bishop wrote:
> If you are looking at these extreme
> improbabilities, your SERIAL isn't guaranteed unique either when you
> take into account cosmic rays flipping the right bits in your ECC
> memory or on your disk platter.
Yes, that's rather the point, the probability is so extremely low that it in most cases it should be treated as 0. Some
peopleseem to have a problem wrapping their heads around relative magnitudes that extreme.
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