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		kragen on Oct 13, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SHA-1 'fully and practically broken' by new collis... 0 is not a probability; trying to use it as one leads to division-by-zero errors.

cortesoft on Oct 14, 2021 [–]

How do you represent the probability of an impossible thing, then?

kragen on Oct 14, 2021 | [–]

You could always be wrong about it being impossible. People do make mistakes sometimes.

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