eli5 With billions and billions of people over time, how can fingerprints be unique to each person. With the small amount of space, wouldn’t they eventually have to repeat the pattern?

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  • UUID

    :snowflake: A PHP library for generating universally unique identifiers (UUIDs). (by ramsey)

    • Of course, theoretical math and applied math often work out differently. Here's a thread with a guy claiming his team's software is running into "Several hundred [UUID] collisions per day"

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    Software suite for ranking chess positions and accurately estimating the number of legal chess positions

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