From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: Hashing on System.Address
Date: 14 Jun 2005 19:20:32 -0400
Date: 2005-06-14T19:20:32-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wccwtowzfsv.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: atidnX-aSLHkqjLfRVn-rQ@megapath.net
"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:
> We'd have preferred to say something stronger, and normatively, but there
> doesn't seem to be a way to describe what a hash function does, other than
> returning a value of Hash_Type that depends of the argument. So we use IA to
> describe what the intent is; IA can be informal and use undefined terms like
> "good".
Right. Given any Hash function, I can construct a data set that will
make it "bad". Therefore, we have to use informal terms in describing
"goodness".
- Bob
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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-13 20:18 Hashing on System.Address Duncan Sands
2005-06-13 21:31 ` Mark Lorenzen
2005-06-14 7:23 ` Duncan Sands
2005-06-14 20:18 ` Randy Brukardt
2005-06-15 7:27 ` Duncan Sands
2005-06-13 21:57 ` Matthew Heaney
2005-06-13 23:41 ` Robert A Duff
2005-06-14 2:22 ` Matthew Heaney
2005-06-14 7:27 ` Duncan Sands
2005-06-14 8:52 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2005-06-14 9:06 ` Duncan Sands
2005-06-14 9:09 ` Duncan Sands
2005-06-14 17:00 ` Pascal Obry
2005-06-14 20:03 ` Randy Brukardt
2005-06-14 23:20 ` Robert A Duff [this message]
2005-06-15 7:13 ` Duncan Sands
2005-06-14 8:44 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-06-14 10:03 ` Marius Amado Alves
[not found] ` <abb2a2c53e3708803aa68bb87834b7bc@netcabo.pt>
2005-06-14 10:14 ` Duncan Sands
[not found] ` <200506141214.14213.baldrick@free.fr>
2005-06-14 10:29 ` Marius Amado Alves
[not found] ` <64f19b6707e4d19f5362900bbfb80b76@netcabo.pt>
2005-06-14 10:49 ` Marius Amado Alves
2005-06-14 8:42 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-06-14 11:18 ` Duncan Sands
2005-06-14 7:18 ` Duncan Sands
2005-06-14 15:18 ` Matthew Heaney
2005-06-14 16:22 ` Duncan Sands
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