It was already clear to me that Backwards Down The Number Line had to do with hash functions but - TODAY I LEARNED-

The most effective attack against hash functions stems from a famous math problem called “The Birthday Paradox” where it only takes about 28 people at a party to have a probability of 0.5 that 2 will have the same birthday.

A hash collision, when 2 different inputs can produce the same output, is analogous to the Birthday Paradox - and we use the math to determine how long a hash needs to be to be sufficiently confident that a collision can’t occur.

The only rule is “It begins”

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