On Jan 5, 2011, at 11:31 AM, Radosław Smogura wrote:

> The true is that probability 
> that in two coin drops we will get two reverses is 1/4, but true is, too, as 
> Newton said, it's 1/3, because if in 1st drop we don't get reverse we don't 
> need to drop again.

Nonsense. You don't stop generating UUIDs just because you haven't yet got a 
collision.

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