Hash functions.© Copyright 2004-2008 by Paul Hsieh Why look at hash functions? In a previous job, I was asked to look at hashing functions and got into a dispute with my boss about how such functions should be designed. I had advocated the used of LFSRs or CRCs that would be customized to the size of the table, as discussed in "Numerical Recipes". My boss advocated simply performing a modulo by prime operation a
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