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nlehuenlast Tuesday at 11:07 PM2 repliesview on HN

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!


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keepamovinlast Wednesday at 2:40 AM

Maths saved the day again!

I added a section to the README and pages site noting your logic.

cluckindanlast Tuesday at 11:40 PM

It’s ok, you can still assign a unique hash for more than half of the atoms in the universe.