On 2019-05-18 15:19:22 -0500, Ron wrote:
> On 5/18/19 2:27 PM, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
> > On 2019-05-18 10:49:53 -0700, David G. Johnston wrote:
> > > You don’t perform math on a hash
> > That's not generally true. Hashes are used for further computation for
> > example in hash tables or in cryptography.
>
> How is it "using math" to use a hash key in a hash lookup table?
hash modulo table size.
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