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**object**

``ids``
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Generator of random identifiers represented as atoms with 160 bits (20 bytes) of randomness.

| **Availability:** 
|    ``logtalk_load(ids(loader))``

| **Author:** Paulo Moura
| **Version:** 1:2:0
| **Date:** 2026-02-26

| **Compilation flags:**
|    ``static, context_switching_calls``


| **Extends:**
|    ``public`` :ref:`ids(atom,20) <ids/2>`

| **Remarks:**
|    (none)

| **Inherited public predicates:**
|     :ref:`ids/2::generate/1`  

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Public predicates
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(no local declarations; see entity ancestors if any)

Protected predicates
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(no local declarations; see entity ancestors if any)

Private predicates
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(no local declarations; see entity ancestors if any)

Operators
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(none)

.. seealso::

   :ref:`ids(Representation,Bytes) <ids/2>`, :ref:`cuid2 <cuid2/0>`, :ref:`ksuid <ksuid/0>`, :ref:`nanoid <nanoid/0>`, :ref:`snowflakeid <snowflakeid/0>`, :ref:`uuid <uuid/0>`, :ref:`ulid <ulid/0>`

