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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.theory,comp.misc,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Modulus (Re: hashing function for strings)
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Date: 22 Feb 90 18:33:00 GMT
References: <1990Feb15.211210.22950@max.sunysb.edu> <0ZqzBRm00WA1M0d5JZ@andrew.cmu.edu> <7416@ogicse.ogc.edu> <10940@saturn.ADS.COM> <E1wt*4@cs.psu.edu> <10946@saturn.ADS.COM> <981@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
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I've got a secret for you. Engineers like a continuous div/rem as well. The
folks who got it wrong were the physiscists, who never deal with integers
nohow, and crystallography weenies, ditto.
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