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"more unique"

         

httpwebwitch

9:01 pm on Sep 9, 2011 (gmt 0)

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If set to TRUE, uniqid() will add additional entropy (using the combined linear congruential generator) at the end of the return value, which should make the results more unique

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"more unique".

That phrase always kills me. Either something is unique, or it's not. You can't say something's "more unique" than something else.

That's like saying a number is "more prime".

But I hear that phrase used to describe guids and such. Perhaps I should lighten up and accept that people say that to mean "less likely to be duplicated".

g1smd

11:30 pm on Sep 9, 2011 (gmt 0)

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There's many things like that that do my head in.

lucy24

1:27 am on Sep 10, 2011 (gmt 0)

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Beg the question meaning "forcibly raise the question". Factoid meaning "fact". "Online web site." "Accent" when they mean "dialect". "Suspect" when they mean "perpetrator".

But don't mathematicians really distinguish between different types of prime? Hmm. I know where I can lay my hands on a mathematician and ask. His latest avatar is a Moebius strip.

Now, "almost unique" is OK. It's like saying that a quantity approaches zero.