• froztbyte@awful.systems
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    5 months ago

    indeed, that is not it

    hint: don’t try to “read in” any extra meanings. just read the actual statement that was posted.

      • Imacat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        5 months ago

        Would they not have monotonic uuids after altering the code in the article to use a function or lambda as they suggested?

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            5 months ago

            I’ve more of a math background than cs so monotonic is a word I know well but it apparently means something slightly different to me. Monotonicity isn’t mentioned anywhere in that link.

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              5 months ago

              okay, for some reason, I feel the need to help.

              The given link defines the function that creates a UUID:

              uuid.uuid4(): Generate a random UUID.

              In mathematics, can you generate a monotonic function by generating random numbers?

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                5 months ago

                Thanks for trying to explain it. I was hung up on thinking all UUIDs looked like UUID v4. I read up a little on UUID v7 and it’s making sense. Probably should’ve done that sooner.

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                5 months ago

                you are probably a better person than i am for actually giving an explanation