hashability question

[Erik Max Francis]

"Gonçalo Rodrigues" wrote:

> I don't know the first
> thing about good criteria for hashing functions so I am asking the
> more
> knowledgeable people, is this a good hashing function, or does it
> suffer
> from some terrible handicap?

It looks good to me, provided you expect the time stamps (which are
presumably integers or floats) to be unique the vast majority of the
time.

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