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From:
lupe
Date:
October 1, 2002 07:00
Subject:
Re: Collections
Message ID:
20021001140038.GP9296@lupe-christoph.de
On Tuesday, 2002-10-01 at 13:45:30 +0100, Dave Mitchell wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 02:16:14PM +0200, Lupe Christoph wrote:
> > But the collision might occur with the same probability in the first
> > second of the period or the last. You can't guarantee there will not be
> > a collision.
> But if the probability is many orders of magnitude less than say the
> Earth being destroyed by an asteroid, or cosmic rays corrupting your
> RAM or disk in such a way that parity checking is defeated, then why
> worry?
I don't think programmers like to play Russian Roulette. No matter how
good the chances are. And besides, where do you draw the line? What is
a good chance? 1E-38, 1E-20, 1E-10?
Lupe Christoph
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