Sorry if this is silly but if it is a 128 bit number, why do we need 32
characters to represent it? Isn't 8 bits one byte?
On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 8:08 PM Thomas Kellerer <shammat(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> Hemil Ruparel schrieb am 07.10.2020 um 16:21:
> > it is declared as uuid. But how does it occupy only 16 bytes?
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> Because a UUID is internally simply a 128bit number - the dashes you see
> are just formatting.
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> But if you can only send the text represnation, then yes 32 characters
> aren't enough.
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