Hello

I'm reading through the PDF that Brett Slatkin has published for %subj
%.
http://tinyurl.com/3523mej

In the video (the Fan-in part) Brett says that the work_index has to
be a hash, so that 'you distribute the load across the BigTable'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSDC_TU7rtc#t=48m44

And this is how work_index is created:
work_index = '%s-%d' % (sum_name, knuth_hash(index))
...which I guess creates something like 'votesMovieXYZ-54657651321987'

My question is why only one half of work_index is hashed? Is it
important?
Would it be bad to do md5('%s-%d' % (sum_name, index)) so that the
hash would be like '6gw8....hq6'?

Regards
  J. Záruba

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