To know how long in seconds one collision can happen, it is only necessary to take the inverse leadings to:

2.08 1014 secondes, the equivalent of 6 959 560 years.

As this value is huge, we can't give the result as a frequency: 1 collision every n seconds. From a statistic point of view this collision can happen at the beginning or at the end of this calculated time, then it is necessary to divide by 2 this value for having the average for several runs.




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