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Tested with a few UUIDs:

$ uuidgen

2b2ec13b-a1a4-49da-938a-50b24a1e416a

Google - https://www.google.com/search?q=2b2ec13b-a1a4-49da-938a-50b2...

$ uuidgen --sha1 --namespace @dns --name "www.google.com"

488416f4-fcaf-5027-8c63-0105cfa213ea

Google - https://www.google.com/search?q=488416f4-fcaf-5027-8c63-0105...

Nothing. Maybe it is a bug?

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Those aren't valid expressions. It's when there aren't any numerals after a letter, then the letters can be interpreted as variables and the numerals coefficients (for each term separated by a subtract).

That's not it. Digits after letter didn't stop Google from interpreting the original UUID.

Oh you're right. it just considers them all multiplications, sometimes powers.

Only other difference I can see then is >1 contiguous letters in the UUIDS that didn't trigger it, maybe variables have to be single letter.

Not a bug, there are actual search results for the last query. So probably a feature that since results exist, it's not a computation.

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