Quote from: rat03gopoh on February 22, 2023, 07:59:53 AM

Here is a good parable.

Quote from: enmaku on August 29, 2012, 05:26:37 PM

Given your example of 1 billion users at 10 addresses each:

There are 2^160 or about 1,460,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 possible addresses
In your scenario, 1,000,000,000 people are using 10 addresses each for a total of 10,000,000,000 possible addresses
10,000,000,000 / 2^160 should yield the probability of a collision occurring
10,000,000,000 / 2^160 = 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000684

So the chances of a collision occurring in your scenario are approximately 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000684%

Possibility increases drastically when there is divine intervention. Wink

You are talking about case when we need to check ALL of existing variants. But we dont.