hash()

John Marshall John.Marshall at ec.gc.ca
Mon Dec 5 10:56:05 EST 2005


Hi,

For strings of > 1 character, what are the chances
that hash(st) and hash(st[::-1]) would return the
same value?

My goal is to uniquely identify multicharacter strings,
all of which begin with "/" and never end with "/".
Therefore, st != st[::-1].

Thanks,
John



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