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Joseph Pepin wrote:
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> Anybody know what's the algorithm behind this function?
Its not published but if you search the web for hashing functions you can see a number of variants. Given that Oracle recommend an binary power for the hash size, there's a couple of hash functions out there that also recommend this...so that might be a clue
hth
connor
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