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Jun 9, 2011 at 14:01 vote accept Tom
Mar 3, 2011 at 19:18 comment added Steven Evers @Glen: See the unique factorization theorem for uniqueness.
Mar 3, 2011 at 18:51 answer added Rachel timeline score: 1
Mar 3, 2011 at 18:37 answer added Tangurena timeline score: 3
Mar 3, 2011 at 17:45 answer added Ben DeMott timeline score: 2
Mar 3, 2011 at 17:29 answer added Martin Beckett timeline score: 0
Mar 3, 2011 at 17:01 comment added Tom @Glen Afaik multiplying primes together always generates a unique number. Anagrams will collide though but idk how much of a problem that is, that's basically the point of it to find anagrams quickly.
Mar 3, 2011 at 16:59 comment added glenatron Does using primes for your hashing function make it impossible to have any word collisions that don't include identical methods? It seems that it should be possible to to have a long word with lots of low-value letters to it that hashed to the same value as a short word with a few high-value letters, but I don't know much number theory so it's probably well proven one way or another...
Mar 3, 2011 at 16:19 comment added Kit Menke I'd love to have something like this for wordpress...
Mar 3, 2011 at 16:12 history edited Tom CC BY-SA 2.5
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Mar 3, 2011 at 16:05 comment added Rich Would be interesting to see how this compares with Trigram Search.
Mar 3, 2011 at 15:58 history asked Tom CC BY-SA 2.5