<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Mar 21, 2010, at 10:02 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Guido van Rossum <<a href="mailto:guido@python.org">guido@python.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Which I still have to review. (Mark, if you're there, could you make a<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">brief post here on the mathematical definition of the new hash you're<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">proposing, and why it is both efficient to compute and good (enough)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">as a hash function?)<br></blockquote><br>Never mind, Mark. I found your explanation here:<br><a href="http://codereview.appspot.com/660042/diff/19001/11009?column_width=80">http://codereview.appspot.com/660042/diff/19001/11009?column_width=80</a><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><br></font></font></div></blockquote><br></div><div>I'm often dazzled by Mark's brilliance,</div><div>but this is an especially nice bit of reasoning.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Raymond</div></body></html>