logoalt Hacker News

nlehuenlast Tuesday at 10:54 PM1 replyview on HN

I came here to write that :-)


Replies

nlehuenlast Tuesday at 11:07 PM

Actually there are π(N) ~ N / ln(N) primes less than N per the Prime Number Theorem, so π(2 ^ 160) ~ 2 ^ 153.2 - this only drops 7 bits. So that does increase the odds of collision but much less than what I expected!

show 1 reply