Hash??? Not quite clear on what this is...

[Charles Tryon]

in <885 at compnect.UUCP>, johncore at compnect.UUCP (John Core ) writes:
> > avery at netcom.UUCP (Avery Colter) writes:
> > 
> > >I'm seeing all this talk of "Hash Functions".
> > 
> College programming courses seem to never deal with the REAL (ie buisness)
> world.  ...
> 
> --just another old fart telling a war story...

  Well, I never learned much about hashing when I went to school (more years
  ago than I want to think about ;-).  I know the concept of hashing, but have
  never had a use for it in the applications I have worked on.  My question
  is, are there any recomendations out there for a good, fairly basic book on
  hashing?  I don't need to know all the gory details and the latest hot-shot
  methods, just the basics.

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