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[Dan Bernstein]

In article <1990Oct19.040234.20794 at watmath.waterloo.edu> cpshelley at watmsg.waterloo.edu (cameron shelley) writes:
>   return h & ROOTLEN;           /* ROOTLEN must be a power of 2, ie. 2^16 */

Just to make sure it gets said: This should probably be h % ROOTLEN, or
h & (ROOTLEN - 1). The latter is faster under most computers and
compilers.

---Dan