From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <775b8d190803052031m36e2c44ap319073cb857de8bd@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 15:31:02 +1100 From: "Bruce Ellis" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] thoughs about venti+fossil In-Reply-To: <14ec7b180803052015k6957e809p7c58dfa03545e026@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080305055255.GA4575@nibiru.local> <7f575fa27b41329b9ae24f40e6e5a3cd@plan9.bell-labs.com> <20080306040441.GA18329@nibiru.local> <14ec7b180803052015k6957e809p7c58dfa03545e026@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6ffcd3f2-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 it's even sillier, if everyone bought 1,000,000 times as many tickets guess how that would change the probabilities. not at all! brucee On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 3:15 PM, andrey mirtchovski wrote: > > Well, cracking the lottery jackpot happens quite often (if people > > would buy as many lotter tickets as we've got disitinct data > > blocks as we have in larger data storages or network traffic > > over several years, it would happen very regularily). > > i think what you fail to take into consideration is the fact, that > even if the chance of a collision may be relatively high by your > standards, the chance that the colliding blocks have data of any > significance is very, very low. i.e., the algorithm for figuring out > whether a hash collision will be important to you personally belongs > to EXPSPACE, which, we all know, is filled with pr0n anyways. > > cheerio! >