On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 12:18:00AM -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 11:35:22AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Discrete Mathematics Question; how did the samba developers conclude that
> > the default mangling method "hash" results in a probability-of-name-clash
> > of 1/1300?
hash method is:
ABCDEFGH.IJK
|
V
ABCDE~xx.IJK
xx is [A-Z0-9].
so 36*36 = 1296 (nearly equal 1300).
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