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From: craig@BBN.COM (Craig Partridge)
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Subject: hashing article
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While people are talking about hashing there's an interesting article
in the most recent Software Practice and Experience about hashing functions.
It discusses a case where an apparently reasonable hash function gives
non-optimal distributions.

Craig