From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,76e8d825615718a X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!gegeweb.org!aioe.org!news.tornevall.net!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada.Containers Hash function for a set of small integers Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:14:41 -0700 Organization: TornevallNET - http://news.tornevall.net Message-ID: References: <50701baa-7c05-450c-a42d-c699516ddc00@t14g2000prm.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: de90a2958480da2bc95b0fadc038b216 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: 1ef65a3c0c3ce8b75c77ded7cad0a612 X-Complaints-To: abuse@tornevall.net X-Complaints-Language: Spoken language is english or swedish - NOT ITALIAN, FRENCH, GERMAN OR ANY OTHER LANGUAGE! In-Reply-To: X-Validate-Post: http://news.tornevall.net/validate.php?trace=1ef65a3c0c3ce8b75c77ded7cad0a612 X-SpeedUI: 1738 X-Complaints-Italiano: Non abbiamo padronanza della lingua italiana - se mandate una email scrivete solo in Inglese, grazie User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100411) X-Posting-User: 0243687135df8c4b260dd4a9a93c79bd Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10214 Date: 2010-04-26T11:14:41-07:00 List-Id: Warren wrote: > Simon Wright expounded in news:m28w8dyhjr.fsf@pushface.org: >> >> I believe the 10019 came from Knuth, but can't see a reference. > > I think this is just a selected prime number: Except that 10_019 is not a prime number, according to: http://www.mathematical.com/primes0to1000k.html 9949,9967,9973,10007,10009,10037,10039,10061,10067,10069,10079,10091,10093 -- Jeff Carter "Ah, go away or I'll kill ya." Never Give a Sucker an Even Break 100