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From: Jeff Carter <spam.carter.not@spam.innocon.com>
Subject: Re: Help with Hashing
Date: 1998/10/27
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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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