Well that depends on your luck, it could be a valid one about 1/16th of the time.
1/64, actually, because RFC-compliant (variant 1) UUIDv4 requires fixed values for both the version nibble and two bits of the variant nibble.
The fact that we're discussing this at all is a reasonable argument for using a library function.
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1/64, actually, because RFC-compliant (variant 1) UUIDv4 requires fixed values for both the version nibble and two bits of the variant nibble.
The fact that we're discussing this at all is a reasonable argument for using a library function.