The distribution of hash function outputsWhat this page is This page has a number of tables with the results of a test on several well-known hash functions. It accompanies this article. There's a summary at the bottom if you're just interested in seeing which function scores ‘best’ Longer explanation In a set of values that are uniformly distributed over the total output space, we can state that one half of the output values should have
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