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Subject: Re: Questions about hash table implementation?

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 15:07:23 05/22/01

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On May 22, 2001 at 17:54:11, David Rasmussen wrote:

>I measured my numbers. My minimum distance is 16, and my average distance is
>31.9997 .
>
>Are we talking about different things here?

You didn't read my post well enough. I was talking about 32 bit numbers.

32 bit numbers cannot have an average hamming distance of 32, because
when all 32 bits must be different you only have one possibility :)

32 / 2 ~= 15.99 just as 64 / 2 ~= 31.997

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GCP



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