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That's not Microsoft "screwing it up", that's you not feeding the algorithm enough characters for it to be really sure. While that short string is below the threshold, the threshold is actually quite surprisingly small; if I remember correctly it's just over 100 bytes and any non-pathological input will be correctly identified with effectively 100% success.



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