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From: Marty (reply_at_to.forum)
Date: 08/19/04 

Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 19:11:16 GMT

Hello,

Does anyone has to face the problem of hashing a string of 12 characters
AND avoid any collision?

I'm looking for some algorithm who could return a good (small) hash
value for any string of 12 characters.

Do you have any idea?

Marty

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