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  3. December 2004

Re: Compute Hash Code

I don't understand.  What good will this do you?  What are you going to do
with the hash code?

Wouldn't it make more sense to use a standard hash code that's already
been well tested and documented, such as MD5?


On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 Chris_Bougher@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I need to compute a hash type code for an array of 3 character strings. The
> strings are always 3 digit numeric values and do not repeat within a
> sequence. I was thinking that I could add the numbers together multiplying
> by their position in the list. i.e.
>
> array = '100', '200', '300', '400', '500'
> hash = (100 * 1) + (200 * 2) + (300 * 3) + (400 * 4) + (500 * 5) = 5500
>
> Does anyone see any issues with this method? Does anyone have a better
> method?
>

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