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Comment by kstrauser

Because the hash function is only reliably useful for laying out dict keys, and its outputs are totally opaque and coincidental.

The pigeonhole principle says there are an infinite number of inputs with the same hash output. Trying to figure out how that happens can be fun and enlightening, but why? “Because it just does, that’s all.”

parent kstrauser 1 year ago

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