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leni536
on Feb 5, 2019
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UUIDs in MySQL are really not random
The article's gripe with UUIDs is with
uniformity
and not randomness. A low discrepancy sequence [0] is an example for something uniform but not random in an sense.
[0]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-discrepancy_sequence
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[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-discrepancy_sequence