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The rfc is rather long for a UUID being just a random integer...

But if we're talking about UUID v4, it seems that 122 out of 128 are indeed random. [1] So why not just go all the way? Who cares about these 6 bits of meta data?

[1] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc412



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