[Ecls-list] Name of init function.

Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll jjgarcia at users.sourceforge.net
Fri May 30 21:33:22 UTC 2008


On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 11:23 PM, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll
<jjgarcia at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
>> Also, given
>> relative shortness of the name using strong hash which mixes well
>> all ingredients seem preferable compared to current method which
>> seem to separately encode components.

BTW, the shortness of the name does not necessarily imply small hash
key. The name is encoded using base 62.

> (expt 62 8)
218340105584896
> (expt 62 18)
183252712161029662582812243656704


Juanjo

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