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Exactly. For the statisticians in the room, it's a Poisson process. That means that over time your results should average out to meet certain expectations but each individual hash either solves the problem completely or doesn't solve it at all - no in-betweens and no teamwork.


Doesnt this mean that it youve got slower hardware then youll always lose at finding the next number?




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