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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (10 children)

It's unlikely to have ever happened.

2^42 is 25 times the total number of people ever born in all of history.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (5 children)

...i think it's quite a bit more than that

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I had to check the math and I was surprised that 2^42 is “only” 4.4 trillion. Thought it would be a lot greater like there are less atoms in the universe similar to the uniqueness of a shuffled deck of cards.

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