--- Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jun 4, Paul said:
>
> > 3/8
> >
> >Which means there are 3 elements, and space has been allocated for
> 8.
>
> No, it means 3 out of the 8 buckets allocated have been used. This
> doesn't tell you the number of keys, unless (by some terrible
> misfortune) all your keys have found their way into unique buckets.
Another thing -- does it always tell you how many buckets have been
allocated? Once I thought it was simplifying the fraction, but that
doesn't seem right....
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