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Subject: Re: Hash table question.

Author: Dieter Buerssner

Date: 15:17:54 06/20/04

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On June 20, 2004 at 17:29:28, Mathieu Pagé wrote:

>You could also use any value for the size and take the remainder of the division
>as a index, but you will have to problem in this case:
>
>1) for some size you will get a non-uniform distribution of you entries

Why? I see no reason, that any odd size should give a worse distribution than a
power of 2 size (at least when the original Zorbrist hash key is >> than the
range of the indices in the hash table).

Regards,
Dieter



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