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Re: What are the odds we'll find a collision by the time the last bitcoin gets mined?
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Meni Rosenfeld
on 28/03/2011, 03:51:04 UTC
Quote from: stonetz on March 28, 2011, 12:15:13 AM
Quote from: theymos on March 26, 2011, 09:37:32 PM


It's ~6.84x10-49. Did you put "1 in 2^160" in Wolfram Alpha?  Wink


Haha google, guessing Wolfram Alpha would have the same result. I'll give it a try.
Now why did google give me the wrong answer, 2^160 is pretty simple math.
Wrong answer, or wrong question? 2^160 = 1.46*10^48, 0.5^160 = 6.84*10^(-49), and 1 in 1.46*10^48 is 6.84*10^(-49).
Wolfram|Alpha, by the way, fails spectacularly to parse "1 in 2^160" in the sense we mean here.