Re: Generating valid identifiers

Date	2012-07-27 11:59 +0200
From	Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@shopzeus.com>
Subject	Re: Generating valid identifiers
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 > With 16 ** 10 possible digests, the probability of collision hits 50% 
at 1234605 tables


Actually, I'm using base64 encoding. So it is 64**10. I guess using 6 
characters will enough.

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Generating valid identifiers Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@shopzeus.com> - 2012-07-26 14:26 +0200
  Re: Generating valid identifiers Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-07-26 15:30 +0000
    Re: Generating valid identifiers Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@shopzeus.com> - 2012-07-26 20:08 +0200
    Re: Generating valid identifiers Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-07-26 13:28 -0600
      Re: Generating valid identifiers Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-07-27 01:54 +0000
        Re: Generating valid identifiers Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@shopzeus.com> - 2012-07-27 09:34 +0200
    Re: Generating valid identifiers Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-07-26 14:00 -0600
    Re: Generating valid identifiers Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@shopzeus.com> - 2012-07-27 09:28 +0200
    Re: Generating valid identifiers Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@shopzeus.com> - 2012-07-27 11:59 +0200

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