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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