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A UUID is an abbreviation for '''Universally Unique Identifier'''.  It's a 128-bit (16 byte) value which is generated in such a way as to make collisions very unlikely.  See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUID Wikipedia on UUIDs] for more information.
A UUID is an abbreviation for '''Universally Unique Identifier'''.  It's a 128-bit (16 byte) value which is generated in such a way as to make collisions very unlikely.  See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUID Wikipedia on UUIDs] for more information.


In LSL they are stored in the [[key]] variable type (which is a specialized form of a string).
In LSL they are stored in the [[key]] variable type (which is a specialized form of a string).

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