From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Maximum non-constant constructors
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 18:27:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050317182712.GA28935@furbychan.cocan.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <873buub2ll.fsf@qrnik.zagroda>
On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 06:32:06PM +0100, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:
> Beware of the birthday paradox: the probability of finding two values
> with the same hash is much larger than the probability of finding a
> single value with the given hash (a square root of the previous one).
Yes, I was thinking about this too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCaml#Code_examples
(Good excuse to get rid of the terrible "99 bottles of beer" example
too).
Rich.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-17 18:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-16 19:51 Tom Hawkins
2005-03-16 20:42 ` [Caml-list] " Alain Frisch
2005-03-16 23:22 ` Tom Hawkins
2005-03-17 15:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-03-16 23:32 ` [Caml-list] " Richard Jones
2005-03-17 12:36 ` Jean-Christophe Filliatre
2005-03-17 14:00 ` Eric Cooper
2005-03-17 17:32 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2005-03-17 18:27 ` Richard Jones [this message]
2005-03-17 17:55 ` Jon Harrop
2005-03-19 2:28 ` Jacques Garrigue
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