Why do collisions happen?

• Birthday paradox: expected number of random insertions until the first collision is only

sqrt(?*M/2)

• Examples:

  M = 100 sqrt(?*M/2) ~ 12
  
  M = 1000 sqrt(?*M/2) ~ 40
  M = 10000 sqrt(?*M/2) ~ 125

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