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Subject: Re: Hashing is a complicated affair ?

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 16:06:23 04/05/04

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On April 05, 2004 at 18:58:57, Andrew Wagner wrote:

>On April 05, 2004 at 18:42:57, rasjid chan wrote:
>
>>On April 05, 2004 at 15:59:40, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>
>>What fruits! I can't yet digest the apple.
>>
>>On a more serious note, it seems there MAY BE much more in hashing
>>than what I know - UB, LB, EX. I need time to see what all these mean.
>
>UB = Upper bound, LB = Lower bound, EX = exact.
>
>When you store a value in the hash table, sometimes it will not be exact, so you
>store some flag along with it that says what kind of position it is. If you just
>failed high, all you know is that the score is at least X. If if failed low, all
>you know is the score is at most X. And if the score is between alpha and beta,
>it's exact.
>

Yes, those names probably confuse more than anything.

I use H_BETA for lower bound and H_ALPHA for upper bound.

I don't want to risk bugs because I misread fail-lows with lower bound.

-S.
>>Rasjid



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