From: Jeff Carter <spam.carter.not@spam.innocon.com>
To: SiliconJesus <softichj@cs.montana.edu>
Subject: Re: Help with Hashing
Date: 1998/10/27
Date: 1998-10-27T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3635DB8B.870E88F7@spam.innocon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.OSF.3.95.981026225839.14012U-100000@esus.cs.montana.edu
You might want to look at P. K. Pearson, "Fast Hashing of
Variable-Length Text Strings," Comm. ACM, 1990 Jun. It claims to be a
fast "hashing function specifically tailored to variable-length text
strings. ... Similar strings are not likely to collide."
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1998-10-26 0:00 Help with Hashing SiliconJesus
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