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maxerickson
on April 6, 2014
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Note the commit hash
If you switch to verbatim there are only about a dozen.
I think the odds of an accidental collision with badc0de are pretty low.
sexmonad
on April 6, 2014
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Each hex character represents 4 bits. That means that a 7 character string is 28 bits. That's about 268 million possibilities. On average, it would take around 134 million commits to get one that started with "badc0de".
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I think the odds of an accidental collision with badc0de are pretty low.