Need some suggestions on how to effectively create a string hash function that will give me very little collisions. My hash needs to read in 5 letter words, all lower case and no alpha numeric mix. Any ideas? Thanks!
Need some suggestions on how to effectively create a string hash function that will give me very little collisions. My hash needs to read in 5 letter words, all lower case and no alpha numeric mix. Any ideas? Thanks!
A suggestion:
http://eternallyconfuzzled.com/tuts/hashing.html
Last edited by Dave_Sinkula; 04-21-2006 at 10:25 PM.
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