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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 a
brief post here on the mathematical definition of the new hash you're
proposing, 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