hash values and equality

MRAB python at mrabarnett.plus.com
Fri May 20 21:02:48 EDT 2011


On 21/05/2011 01:47, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Fri, 20 May 2011 21:17:29 +0100, MRAB wrote:
>
>> On 20/05/2011 20:01, Christian Heimes wrote:
>>> Am 20.05.2011 17:50, schrieb MRAB:
>>>> Is this strictly true? I thought that the hash value, an integer, is
>>>> moduloed (Is that how you spell it? Looks weird!) ...
>>>
>>> I don't think 'moduloed' is an existing word but your description is
>>> mostly correct. ...
>>>
>> A brief search on the web found a use of the word in 1982.
>
> All that means is that two people, three decades apart, used the same non-
> word :)
>
[snip]
There were other uses. That's just the earliest one I found.



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