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Subject: Re: Random keys and hamming distance

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 06:23:55 08/17/02

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On August 17, 2002 at 03:29:02, Ricardo Gibert wrote:

>>In Gerbil, Bruce does:
>>
>>//	"rand()" produces 15-bit values (0..32767).  I want 64 bits.
>
>If this is Bruce's comment, then he is not getting what he intended. I don't see
>how he could make this mistake. I assume this is your comment. Yes?

That comment and code is straight from the Gerbil source file. AFAIK, Bruce made
it. Maybe he thought 45-bit hash keys was a good compromise between 32-bits and
64-bits :)

Russell



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