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On Mar 21, 2010, at 10:02 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:Which I still have to review. (Mark, if you're there, could you make abrief post here on the mathematical definition of the new hash you'reproposing, and why it is both efficient to compute and good (enough)as a hash function?)
Never mind, Mark. I found your explanation here:
http://codereview.appspot.com/660042/diff/19001/11009?column\_width=80
I'm often dazzled by Mark's brilliance,
but this is an especially nice bit of reasoning.
Raymond