# We calculate the expected total number of collisions, # from legitimate submissions: n - D + D((D-1)/D)^n # n = # values, D = size of the output space # source: http://matt.might.net/articles/counting-hash-collisions/ # To run this script install julia and run "julia collisions.jl". bits = big"128" # length of hash ppl = 8000000000 # world population estimate cens = 4*24*14 # CENs per person for two weeks, assuming rotation frequency of 15 minutes n = ppl*cens # total number of CENs for two weeks H = 2^bits # size of hash output space, uniform distribution is assumed print(n - H + H*((H-1)/H)^n)