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TIL the nonce of a contract account is the number of contracts it has created via CREATE or CREATE2.

So, you can use eth_getTransactionCount / `cast nonce` to quickly find how many child contracts a factory has created, e.g. the Uniswap V2 factory on Base has created 718k pairs.

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Also the amount of child contracts is the nonce - 1 since contracts have a default nonce of 1 when deployed.